Architecture and interior design thread

Stirling 2011 - RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist - The Velodrome, London by Hopkins Architects on Vimeo

Looks great hobo.

Question for storage space;

At the moment we've got our bikes in the house, under the stairs. Soon I'll be getting a shed so the space will be unused, but because this space is under the stairs (not a cupboard) I've got no idea what to use it for.

That house with the diagonal bookcases is amazing.

I went to the convent of La Tourette this summer. It is a very special building, very hard, but amazingly playful at the same time. Modernist but with the character and atmosphere of castles, Scottish fisherman's huts, Greek towns. I stayed two nights, and was going to visit Lyon in between but instead I just stayed and walked around the building. You stay in a cell and eat with the monks in the refectory. You're encouraged to attend the masses even if, like me, you're not a Catholic or don't believe in God.

It's an intense experience. One thing that was completely unexpected: I visited near the summer solstice. When I went into the church in the evening, the setting sun coming in through a slot window just under the ceiling grazed across its concrete slabs, and at the same time a shaft of light from the side cut across the polished metal cross at one end of the altar, making it shine, and then hit the back wall right in the centre. From where I was at the other end of the church it seemed there was a halo resting on the altar.

barchan it sounds like the type of experience life is made for, well done.

Humboltd University Library in Berlin, really great place, have a look if you get the chance.

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Wow.

CoppiThat, BlueQuinn and MarkyBoy, did you notice this when we were riding in Le Havre last saturday?

Le Havre is beautiful I thought, although a weird city as we noticed...

Tooting my own horn but im quite proud of my handiwork:
Pretty much all me from conception to demolition to installation (apart from the services) took me just over a month, but my mum is well chuffed. Now starting on her bedroom/bathroom.

Please what worktop did you use?

omg, I love this! This is so magical and impressive. And given my love for the mountains I'd say it's a safe bet.

Is it real? My friends are betting it's photoshopped. I'd love for this to be my winter vacation home.

So many nice houses in Phoenix...

Looks nice Jaw, where did you get the picture?

Is it real? My friends are betting it's photoshopped. I'd love for this to be my winter vacation home.

No, it's an hologram...
Is your question for real? My friends are betting it's piss-take.

This is beautiful I think, and well worth a visit; the PM Gallery in Ealing. It's connected to Sir John Soanes old country retreat, which is free to enter and thoroughly worth a wander around for the interiors.

I'm giving this place a prod. Yas and I went today to the PM gallery to see this show http://www2.ealing.gov.uk/services/leisure/museums_and_galleries/pm_gallery_and_house/exhibitions/. Perfect for this thread. It's good.

The smaller space has the 'Place and Palatte' show, here http://www2.ealing.gov.uk/services/leisure/museums_and_galleries/pm_gallery_and_house/studio/. There's some very nice stuff in there too.

Afterwards we had a walk around the gardens, where scallies Cheeched their Chong, then the house itself, which unfortunately had a room shut due to a wedding.

All free.

theoryswine it sounds like a must go to place. i gave away a soames museum bag this week. i stumbled across this looking for shigeru ban.

Villa Geldrop, Holland by Hofmann Dujardin

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**The cardboard version **of le Corbusier's "le Gran Confort" club chair. Completely made of recycled materials; used cardboard, nylon strapping, and rusted, forgotten steel, welded for the frame. By Nick Michelin.

In case any of you are interested a load of lectures by some rather good architects have been recorded and put up on here the Tom Emerson and David Kohn ones are particularly good.

i just got back from georgia, their redoing that building its great!

david kohn - 47 minutes well spent. the last project stable acre was so well thought out. i love you aleksi.

yer that last building you put up reminded me of it and I couldnt remember who had designed it hence the linkup ;)

love this. looks like cargo containers pilled up.

http://www.architecture-page.com/go/projects/kangaroo-valley-house

John Pawson - Home - YouTube

nice! bet it's plenty hot in the summer though