Architecture and interior design thread

What's the best way to remove heat stains on walnut veneer.

Google says steam iron with a dry cotton cloth?!

White marks?
Yes, put a clean teatowel over it and use a steam iron.
I had great success with a walnut table that had been marked for years. I can't remember if I used steam or just heat, but it worked. I followed a Youtube video.

Water marks - white-ish - yeah iron.
Heat marks (darkened) - more difficult. I couldn't shift it on my coffee table.

A photo series on unrealised mega-projects in New York City. These things are always quite fun, even if none of this ever had a chance of being built--also gives context to follies like Johnson's 'Estuary Airport'. It may be near London, but the basic mechanism by which it comes to be conceived is the same--a divorce from reality.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/jan/12/new-york-never-built-skyscraper-cathedral-pneumatic-railway-in-pictures

Anyone see that thing about the world's most extraordinary homes called The World's Most Extraordinary Homes on telly? What a missed opportunity!

It could have been sumptuous mediation on some incredible projects with Piers Taylors expert commentary.

Instead it's the other one off Men Behaving Badly which isn't the main guys or Deborah screeching about how good that room is for kids and asking one guy 'how do you design a house?'.

Maybe it was, before some box-ticking producers got their hands on it.

i missed that but stumbled across this yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCyN1hxQtdA

Interesting to read that Zaha Hadid's business partner and current boss of her practice is also a totally heartless mentaloid. Glad to see his views aren't shared in the architecture community

I stumbled across that last week! Nice but (v v) pricey. Cute that it comes fully furnished though. More markety info here

€580k! It'd better be nuclear bomb proof for that sort of money.

Pretty sure it's heat mark(s). Bit pissed off tbh as it's not an obvious one but obvious enough to trigger my OCD.

It's patina. Embrace it.

ercol/misc scandi small tables/tables with leaves. talk to me. i am a woman of limited home space, ergo table must be under 5foot wide fully extended

Turps can be pretty effective on dark marks, but also on fucking up varnish.

They missed off Paul Rudolph's brightly optimistic apartment scheme from the 60's.

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actually a similar thing actually got built in berlin:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn%C3%BCberbauung_Schlangenbader_Stra%C3%9Fe
(only german wiki, google/browser translate?)

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/feb/03/skyscrapers-vanity-height-graphics-numbers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-38884020

About 20 miles west of Glasgow lies a modern ruin. St Peter's Seminary was built only 50 years ago, yet by the 1990s it was derelict. However, plans to breathe new life into the building are now close to being realised.

Alexandra

I lived next door to ^ this estate, we always called it Rowley Way, lol

i posted some pics of that last summer
i really loved that little walkway and the various flats
brutal but stunning

i am sorted!! found one of these on ebay:

many thank yous though

Before I put it up on the main OT classifieds, is anyone interested in my Vitra Eames RAR rocker? It's 6 years old, in pretty much perfect condition, mustard coloured. I'm not quite sure what's a fair price, £200? (including forum donation). Pick up from SE19. Happy to take pics etc.

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Is comfortable?

Well, it's not *un*comfortable, but I've come to the conclusion that they look better than they feel to sit on. Basically, you can't get around the fact that there's no padding.

Rocking is fun though and if your place is vaguely 50s onwards it'll look awesome.

ps mine has chrome base and ash 'skis'