Architecture and interior design thread

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Following on from Meades, some concrete loveliness.

wow, that took forever to resolve
myeyes

So optimistic...

What teh funk is dat? Sandown racecourse?

Cumbernauld shopping centre, had 'decrepit mugging free-for-all' written all over it before the foundations were even laid

Was in Copenhagen over the weekend. OMG fell in love.

But also filled a suitcase with stuff from Hay - such an awesome shop. I think I will drive up there with a van to buy furniture as it is way, way cheaper than in the UK

Was in Copenhagen over the weekend. OMG fell in love.

But also filled a suitcase with stuff from Hay - such an awesome shop.

Hay is an awesome shop and I spent far too much money last time I was there. Lots of their stuff is available online from places like Nest and some of the Scandinavian design shops.

http://ar2012.thecrownestate.co.uk/media/83052/windsor-estate_top_banner_1600x610.jpg

http://www.fourthdoor.org/annular/?page_id=453

Hay is an awesome shop and I spent far too much money last time I was there. Lots of their stuff is available online from places like Nest and some of the Scandinavian design shops.

Yeah - the markup is pretty nuts though.

Good hood sell quite a lot of their accessories - often at 100% markup!

100% markup is not exactly steep for a shop. Dept. store fashion depts are probably more like 300%.

try running a shop on less.

B.

Yes I get the economics of retail.

But thanks for the heads up, B.

On the iPlayer at the moment:

Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry with Jonathan Meades

Very entertaining, moderately controversial brutalist architecture documentary.

Thanks. Watched the first 5 mins and bookmarked. Will share with better half (architect) this evening.

He's very funny, basically lectures at you for an hour through a fog of sarcasm and exaggerated distain for everything.

Sometimes when you watch documentaries on subject you know well they are limited and over simplified. I'm not an expert on this so maybe i'm not best placed to say but it seems to be better informed than a lot of BBC docs. I don't agree with everything he says in it but its well worth watching.

I enjoyed part one. Rosie was sound asleep by the end of it, however; not sure if that's to be taken as a comment on the content though.

architects are boring!

On the iPlayer at the moment:

Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry with Jonathan Meades

Very entertaining, moderately controversial brutalist architecture documentary.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread82120.html

Blimey - never occurred to me LFGSS would have a specific 'Jonathan Meades' thread.

Must UTFS etc etc

Really love this kind of style. Planning on doing a bit of a ghetto DIY version in the Swedish countryside as a place to get up to no good.

That's lovely. Where in sweden if I may ask?

Somewhere around Karlstad / Kristinehamn. Don't really want to go much further north than that as it gets a bit too cold, dark and too far away from civilisation. The idea is to get a very basic cabin and just slowly rebuild it as an ongoing project, or build one next to it and have two.
Its still a bit in the fantasy stage at the moment but should hopefully have something within a year.

It was either struggle in London for ever with the possibility of some day having a horrible London mortgage or move somewhere without a prime property market like Scandinavia or Germany.

Anyone been up to the folly (severndroog castle) at the top of shooters hill now its been reopened?

Severndroog Castle is a folly situated in Oxleas Wood, on Shooter's Hill in south-east London in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It was designed by architect Richard Jupp in 1784.
It was built to commemorate Commodore Sir William James who, in April 1755, attacked and destroyed the island fortress of Suvarnadurg (then rendered in English: Severndroog) of the Maratha Empire on the western coast of India, between Mumbai and Goa. James died in 1783 and the castle was built as a memorial to him by his widow, Lady James of Eltham.
A Grade II* listed building,[1] the Gothic-style castle is 63 feet (19 m) high and triangular in section, with a hexagonal turret at each corner. From its elevated position, it offers views across London, with features in seven different counties visible on a clear day.
The Green Chain Walk and Capital Ring long distance paths go through Eltham Common and Castle Wood and past the castle from Shooter's Hill towards Eltham.
In 1988, the local council could no longer afford the building's upkeep and it was boarded up. In 2002, a community group, the Severndroog Castle Building Preservation Trust, was established. In 2004, it featured in the BBC TV series Restoration (presented by Griff Rhys Jones, Ptolemy Dean and Marianne Suhr, producer-director Paul Coueslant) - with the aim of gaining support for a programme of work to restore the building and open it to the public.
In July 2013 work began on renovating the castle.

^ Haha. So many links but none to the castle itself!

Talking of follies, I want to visit the Dunmore Pineapple in Scotland - bonkers!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Dunmore_pineapple.jpg