Architecture and interior design thread

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In Paris I think?

Ivry-sur-Seine by Jean Renaudie and Renée Gailhoustet. Some great photos of it here: http://socks-studio.com/2012/08/11/jean-renaudie-and-renee-gailhoustets-housing-building-in-ivry-sur-seine-1969-1975/

Took a group of students there a few years ago, we had a train mix up and got there later than intended, in the evening. It's an extraordinary place and somewhat scary, especially in the internal warren of very quiet shopping areas - you can't see where you're going and it quickly feels like private territory, especially when the shops have shut (and many were empty). In terms of landscape I think it's brilliant. And bonkers.

Like Habitat in Montréal without the charm.

I really hope they pull this silly pile of crap down soon:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/oct/20/olympic-parks-orbit-tower-costing-taxpayer-10000-a-week

It's worth noting that another Boris vanity project, the garden bridge, needs to sell £3.5m worth of t-shirts, pens and other assorted tat just to cover its maintainence budget.

Hi is there anyone ere that could offer me some career advice. I've already posted in te career advice thread but there's not many people offered for any. I'd be really appreciative o any advice given!

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The amazingly-named Kram Developments start work on a new basement, putting up scaffolding and a house collapses:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/barnes-house-collapse-prior-building-work-to-blame-says-construction-firm-a3124576.html

It's completely unclear to me from the article what happened there.

http://occupythecass.tumblr.com/

Yeah I saw that, and I'm glad the students have taken direct action. It's such a shame that London Met is run so incompetentantly, because lots of great students come from the Cass. The architecture department only moved down to Aldgate three years ago, so it speaks volumes for the lack of strategic planning at the top of the university that they want to move them back to Holloway Rd again.

Architecture will be fine - they were fine at Holloway Rd before. It's the smaller courses - silversmithing, furniture, musical instrument making - that are historically based at Aldgate and are likely to be axed in the move. It is totally ridiculous to move them twice in a few years though - and having just paid for that studio refit too.

I agree, it's good that the students are making an explicit point that they are against cuts to courses, student places and staff too.

First salvos fired against this utterly rubbish scheme, but it's almost certain that the Mayor of London will attempt to over-rule the local authorities:

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/heritage/councils_reject_bishopsgate_goodsyard_berlin_wall_of_bland_skyscrapers_1_4344952

I had the "honour" of working on part of this. We went for the building that goes over Shoreditch station... then tried to propose a whole new masterplan as this one has so many horrendous flaws. Alas the developers just wouldn't listen.
They've paid so much for the site without thinking that much about it. The underground conditions means minimal founadable zones to the South hence everything ends up abutting Bethnal Green road end. Horrible site. Should be given to public space or low rise affordable housing. That's what's needed. But developers won't listen.

An old mate of mine works at Snøhetta in Oslo.. I am a huge fan of their work

http://snohetta.com/project/136-lofoten-opera-hotel

One of the reasons for cycling Styrkeprøven to see the Norwegian landscape..
Snøhetta were also joint winners with designing the new Norge banknotes..

I can't wait to be back there with my bike.
Almac x

Sorry to hear that, can't have been fun. They should have left the Bishopsgate Goodsyard in place. Despite is simplicity, that was a formidable building. Perhaps some concession could have been made to the long-standing plan of increasing rail capacity into Liverpool Street Station, which requires shaving off some of the southern end, but overall it would have made a spectacular base for some really cool development. Unfortunately, Livingstone listened to people who told him an extremely strong Victorian railway structure in very good condition couldn't take modern, much more lightweight trains, and English Heritage wouldn't list more of it. I have no doubt it would have increased the cost of reopening the Old Broad Street line and linking it with the East London line somewhat, but I can't believe it would have been very significant. A huge lost opportunity to give the City a wonderful border--now it'll be City creep for decades.

It's not the first time either - I did instrument making when it was round the corner and that building was refurb'd shortly before being sold too. Not to mention the pointless moving of workshops around the building (mine moved twice in 3 years). By the end of my time there even the SU was being rented out privately at weekends with no access for students!

nice little vid on the off the grid homes in new mexico
https://vimeo.com/147652356

The inevitable result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUDtFdnn9oQ

Haanded in final thesis today! Properly wasted. Will defend it january 12.

congrats! I slept a solid 24h after my final presentation. cant remember a greater satisfaction in my life... you still get to enjoy crimbo or is it model/s now?

thanks.
everything handed in and locked up for commitee to look at. now just to prepare presentation.
I'm in copenhagen, so probably a bit different to how you do it over there.

Should be in epic fail too.
My town, yay.
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jan/04/crime-community-designer-social-housing-winnipeg?CMP=fb_gu

im dutch and studied in eindhoven, dont know how the do it in the uk either. actually, from m experience every uni does it differently.

but whats the deal with the foldmarks btw? and you making a concert hall roof out of jeans?!

It's an old high voltage test hall that I transformed into a denim mill with references to classical church architecture and a dash of brutalism.

The foldmarks are to give the presentation a bit of a down and dirty workshop kind of feel. But actually mostly because it's super practical to bring folded drawings and such a breeze to pin up compared to a those big out of format posters that everyone else does.