July 2010
33 posts
THE DESIGN FUTURE OF THE SACRED GROVE →
GOTHIC BECHER
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T Bailey Offices / Olson Kundig Architects →
Watch“Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.” - Nikki Giovanni In this particular piece what’s growing old and decaying are the buildings, factories, and alleys that I’ve captured. But even decaying surroundings portray beauty if we just open our eyes. music by: M83 “Gone”
“Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky
Little boxes,...”
How to Spot the Best Conversion Opportunities →
The conversion of industrial buildings into living spaces first caught on in the 1970s as councils realised that this was a cost-effective way of reviving old building stock. By the 1990s warehouse developments were bringing regeneration to urban areas throughout the UK, with Manchester, Liverpool, London’s East End and other major towns all benefiting from this renewed interest in pared-down...
Preserving NY's Industrial Buildings, Not Just for... →
Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront was named one of the 11 most endangered places in America by the National Trust for Historic Preservation last year. “A Civil War-era graving dock in Red Hook was paved over and is now a parking lot for Ikea; the old Dutch Mustard Company building in Williamsburg was torn down and turned into condominiums; and the Greenpoint Terminal Market, a former...
Beautiful Balmoral Water Reservoir House by Riddel... →
Nestled behind a hedge at the top of a typical residential street in Brisbane, Australia, a large water tower has gone domestic. Faced with obsolescence, the 1940s cylindrical concrete tower in the Brisbane suburb of Balmoral has been converted into a unique residence by Riddel Architecture. The house features a doughnut plan with rooms arranged around a central atrium. Adaptive reuse prevailed...
Klinic Zero: 107 Reasons Why Architects Matter →
Reason1: Architects are optimists. So what? Otherwise we couldn’t survive, anticipate and prepare for an unknown future and imagine what is not there. Imagine a world of pessimist designers, planning for the worst. That’s the world without architects.
Reason2: Architects balance multiple…
Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography - The... →
During the industrial revolution, factories were built with a great aesthetic concern since they were used to promote the image of companies. Germans, more than all others proved to be particularly ingenious and original builders. Eastern Germany was one of the most industrialized area. Industries of every type were established, it resulted an extraordinary diversity of architectural forms. With...
The Dovecot Studio, Sufffolk, by Haworth Tompkins:... →
Shortlisted for the AJ Small Projects Award, (an annual competition for projects completed for under £250,000) this studio forms part of the music campus at Snape Maltings, founded by Benjamin Britten in derelict industrial buildings on the Suffolk coast.
The studio inhabits a ruin and expresses the internal volume of the existing Victorian structure as a Cor-ten steel ‘lining’.
The monocoque,...
"Women are Heroes" →
The work of Parisian photographer and street artist JR “Women are Heroes” Here JR visits the slums of Kenya where he covered 2000m2 of rooftops with the images of the women who live there.Kenya,London,Rio de Janeiro, Paris…
Viaduc des Arts →
A series of craft studios located inside an adapted 19th century railroad viaduct.
The Viaduc des Arts is a series of 45 working studios for craft artists located between the arches of a restored 19th century viaduct running alongside Avenue Daumesnil. With restaurants and outdoor cafés to complement the artists’ workshops, it has a strong appeal to visitors and tourists. The old rail...
Os Gémeos + Blu, Lisbon →
Abandoned Shipyard
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“Before They Were Parks” exhibit at the Arsenal →
