Architecture and interior design thread

i should have been an architect...

I'd still like to be

there's a house that was an old water tower in ladywell se4. for years i used to go past it and look at the pigeons popping in and out. is was abandoned for many years. just off one of the roads that connects to the bottom of adelaide avenue.

oh dear it was converted into flats

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-34475687.html

dammit have you had any progress with the kitchen tap plan you mentioned?

there's a house that was an old water tower in ladywell se4. for years i used to go past it and look at the pigeons popping in and out. is was abandoned for many years. just off one of the roads that connects to the bottom of adelaide avenue.

oh dear it was converted into flats

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-34475687.html

reminds me of all beautiful old churches that they've massacred into flats. no style what so ever

Just watched that Grand Designs with Ben Law and really enjoyed it.

Hmm personally I'd much rather live in a water tower or church than a generic apartment block. Would you rather they lie empty and derelict? Agreed that flat is vile but at least there's potential to do something unique with it.

The 100-year-old purpose built art college known as Central Saint Martins on Southampton Row is going to become a hotel within a year and I'm actually quite ok with it as long as they do the place justice. I'd rather it be a hotel than be boarded up and abandoned. Plus then I can go back in 20 years and sleep in the same room I used to be taught how to use photoshop in. #WIN

nothing against they're doing up a building and changing it's purpose, what I don't like is the lack of respect. It tends to be done as cheap as possible just to be sold / rented for as much as possible. I've seen churches with a new floor in cutting windows in half, why on earth would you do that

bit like this one

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32891423.html

^^ Fair doos, I see your point, it is pretty upsetting to see historical buildings redecorated like an Essex wives living room and then charging a grand a week for it.

^ HA

I'll get me coat.

Beautiful photo.

There's something more powerful form wise than function going on if you can consider a photo of an appliance beautiful, but that really is.

First time I showered under a head the size of that was in Australia, where I suppose they're common. Makes you realise you're being ripped off with anything less, as satisfying as they are.

The church at Inner Temple. Stood longer than you or I.

Apparently it was in a Dan Brown inspired film but I'd know nothing about that.

/\ I did some work on that church. Stone repairs if I remember rightly. Was a propper pain in the arse drawing the details though.

bona-fide masterpiece

It is, it was great getting to work on some beutfull buildings.

bit like this one

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32891423.html

Erm. Totally phallic windows alert.

You did feel that you had be moving the whole time you were inside and the thought of it becoming a place to look at things for sitting down on was pretty ironic..

I have also been there. From a health and safety point of view there were lots of really sharp edges you could run into when racing to a fire. There was also a fair amount of unmarked full height glass to contend with.

I also enjoyed the visit, it's a nice site and there is a fair bit more architecture to see around the Vitra factory.

Erm. Totally phallic windows alert.

Awesome...
goes for bike ride

I really can't get my head around modern architecture - I thought we had worked out the optimal proportions hundreds of years ago?...

When exactly, I didn't read that memo. ;)

What's wrong with modern if it works?

more.

Some of my favorites:
(i love concrete)

Container House by Christian Yates

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/6608545103/1/tumblr_lmwxkqetej1qlswun

Vals Therms by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zumthor

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmph5evlrb1qhymn9o1_500.jpg
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/6600338450/1/tumblr_lmwlp4FiXF1qlswun

Bus Station in Caceres Spain, by Justo García Rubio

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/6511942110/1/tumblr_lmrie4ReFE1qlswun

CoppiThat - those water towers are amazing.

I get serious pangs of the heart when i see those old buildings. Superior and authoritative. And I believe most of them were built during the art-deco era too which goes hand in hand with the grandeur.

Has anyone ever been to The Wapping Project? I've seen pictures but never been:
http://www.thewappingproject.com/

Similarly to the water towers, a few years ago, my brother and I considered buying a Martello Tower to live in. They are scattered all over the south east coast. i think most of them have fallen to the sea, but some of them are up for renovation.

http://www.arrse.co.uk/diy/154786-martello-tower-conversion.html
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martello_tower[/ame]

Also - on the container thing, you could combine your bike too for that gypsy2000 look:

and for the connoisseur:

Shit off - thats wonderful.

Does anyone here design housing / structures? What about the fateful shed that kick started this thread?

When i was 17 i designed my own house (which is part of this whole life change im currently orchestrating) - it gets tweaked all the time - but i'd love to get my crude drawings on here sometime - see what you think.

Some of my favorites:
(i love concrete)

nice stuff also a concrete fan, when its done well it can be stunning, been lookinga t some Brazilian homes that because of the weather have that living out doors thing. not sure it would work to well in Blighty though
http://www.homedsgn.com/2011/04/27/stunning-concrete-home-in-ubatuba-by-spbr-arquitetos/

^^ Huska went doen to the wapping project last summer great building and they had a good photo exhibition too, would like to eat there love the way they have kept the works in there.