Architecture and interior design thread

You could make that yourself.

Buy some planed, square edge oak slats and cut to size. Drill a hole near the back of each slat and near the front. Run some pipe through the holes.

I can't tell how they're fixed to the back piece of wood though

Garbage pick the sconce, pay through the nose for the light bulb.

Beautiful hangers, but like you say.

What are you going to use it for?

If as part of general wardrobe storage you'll need to keep it visually clean / relatively free of clothes and physically clean with the slatted top.

There was something in the same vein, but less fancy on Ikea hack that I'll try and dig out.

The good thing with most Ikea hack stuff is that you can end up with a nice 'finished' look.

.... although sometimes it's pricier than you think.

That stuff is nice!

Adds Skagerak to list of brands for template IG interior design aesthetic

It's going to be visually clean. We have a shitty white IKEA open wardrobe there at the moment just for a few items but if we have something wall mounted we can have it higher and have some other storage underneath. I'll take a picture when I get home.

I think the plan would to keep hats on top. Hats are a bitch to store safely.

Thinking of getting an Eames DKR wire chair with pad for office chair - Anyone have one? are they comfy to sit in and work from?

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Ugly as sin and completely overpowering. I suppose being out of scale can't be avoided for a major stadium, but I wish they could somehow make an effort at relating it to what's around it.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/chelseas-plan-for-new-stadium-runs-into-trouble-over-threat-to-bats-habitat-a3330141.html

Looks like a prisoner built it from matchsticks. As a local follower of the team I still can't think of much to recommend it.

Reminds me of a 70s wicker chair.

The main superstructure doesn't seem to have any non-decorative/architectural 'statement' function, or am I reading the picture wrongly?

It would be a lot better if the height wasn't so much increased by the latticework.

The architect(s) should just accept that the site is irregularly-shaped and stop insisting that they must find a circle somewhere. :)

The idea behind Herzog's design is to bring back the amphitheatre of grass roots football.

I think it looks horrendous from the air but so does most architecture and that is not how we will see it.

Herzog have a habit of turning shit into gold tho.

Still might be a bit too much mind.

The idea behind Herzog's design is to bring back the amphitheatre of grass roots football.

I have absolutely no idea what you mean by that.

I think it looks horrendous from the air but so does most architecture

That is certainly not true. :)

So its like Jack the lad in the coliseum?

Got it?

Main problem from a supporters point of view is the club have chosen to increase the number of expensive 'experience' seats over the normal 'expensive' season tickets. So now it will be a bigger corporate spectacle than ever and the atmosphere provided by the dedicated fans will likely be further diluted. Most fans would stand in a foot of mud to watch their team win the champions league so I don't see the grass roots connection.

At least we'll have an architectural students destination in Fulham, there are very few modern ones right now.

Apparently hooligans wear suits these dayz.

Or Stone Island all-the-things.

Think it looks pretty good tbh, far better than most arena monsters

Think they are hampered by the constraints of the site, normally they'd dig down and put the pitch below street level, at Stamford bridge they've got the train lines and bridge beside it, the cemetery and lots of housing, tricky location, and even with abramovich's money they can't really move elsewhere, london pricing and also the supporters trust owning the land (but @WornCleat would know more about this).
think it's in line with herzog's thinking about stadium design, didn't the architects do the new Lyon stadium? Which looks if memory serves vaguely similar..

Bordeaux?

Bit different.

Still looks like a part 1 model. ;o)

I have no problem with the pitch being at street level, and I don't even mind a tall stadium. It's a stadium, it's meant to be big. What I wonder about is why there is any need to further increase the stadium's height, seemingly even without some kind of retractable roof construction, by means of all the stuff on top.

Probably need to get some pitch lighting in there somehow, so there will be floodlights ringing the top.
That design will change several times before it gets built, if indeed it ever gets built..

Yes, I thought about lighting, but I have no idea how that gets constructed nowadays. I still think of tall poles with lighting squares on them. Perhaps that the lighting is high up in the construction and not shielded to the outside, e.g. to the bat habitat in Brompton cemetery, is part of the planning report that seems to be referred to in the article. As it's probably hundreds of pages of documents, if not thousands, I won't try to read any of them.

It'll be an intense planning process, for sure, and the design may well change if several successive applications are refused permission.

Might it also be to do with noise? Intensify it to the inside, buffer it to the outside. You have to go quite high before sound barriers have much of an effect, since sound diffracts so easily.