Architecture and interior design thread

I found this quite interesting:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/18/-sp-truth-about-gentrification-how-woodberry-down-became-woodberry-park

I lived in one of the new blocks on this estate briefly (rented a room) , the price to buy one of the flats is draw dropping when you consider where it is. I also daily wondered where the hell they had put all of the people that used to live there when I walked through the empty derelict blocks that seem to be waiting an age to be demolished (although some of them still have a few poor souls having to live in them in horrendous conditions). It's a thought I am also having about my latest home on the Aylesbury Estate.

My landlady on Woodberry Down had a part ownership flat, they were not entitled to as many things as those who bought privately in the big tower and god knows what the social housing block were allowed next door and the private residents always tried to avoid the social housing residents like the plague, It is complete segregation. We'd ask the staff at the main desk about something and they'd say we don't work for your block and send us on our way.

The Glasgow School of Art is on fire. A sad day is an understatement

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-27541883

Oh man, that's awful.

Seconded :(

A Guardian reporter tweeted that the magnificant library is almost certainly destroyed. :`(

no! that's bad. i was there a couple of months ago. lovely building.

Fuuuuu - can't imagine how it would feel to lose all my final project work like this. Very sad.

I walked past it yesterday and was supposed to be working there next week : /

Such a loss to the city...

This is such a monumental loss, even if just damaged. I was an Architecture student at GSA but the building is so deeply loved by Glasgow and all who know it. It will be extremely sad for many people around the world to hear about this .

^ My brother did his Architecture degree there too. He's gutted.

^Nerg'd

What did I do??

gutted

http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/23/think-this-is-a-normal-garden-lawn-think-again-4737851/

exterior design ?

Gotta love early Skidmore, Owings and Merrill...

http://www.metalocus.es/content/en/system/files/file-images/metalocus_Beinecke_Rare_Book_41_1280.jpg

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/02/28/manufacturer-s-trust-company-fifth-avenue-skidmore-owings-merrill-new-york-ny-1954-004--b23664c189a4c008d1a656f2121f4ed8b7eb0378-s6-c30.jpg

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/30/norman-shaw-dream-draw-work-drawings-royal-academy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27681073

Looking forward to Tottenham court road now.

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn

http://www.image-archeology.com/Steve_McQueen_Palm_Springs_Home_FS_1385.jpg

Oh gods, yes - used to work in this building. The only benefit was when you were in it, you couldn't see it.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/decision-day-for-plan-to-demolish-eyesore-1960s-marble-arch-tower-and-build-flats-9475967.html

Nigel Lawson used to be in there a lot, probably for meetings with his climate change denialist chums. If you could knock it down while he's visiting, we'd be grateful everso.

The new proposals don't seem to be any improvement.

awful. Amazing that he can still find work after designing that walky talky thing.

WTF is that crap?
A lot of British building really suck at windows...

Really blows my mind that a qualified architect 'designed' that. No story, no focus, just a blob of concrete, steel and glass.

There are an awful lot of talentless turds hidden away in British Corporate.

I for one, can vouch for this.

Replace old eyesore with new eyesore. Ensure homogeny at all times.