Operating Manual | Architecture, design, craft, construction, noise. Found and made.

Karuna!, posted 25 Sep, 2014
Image by Grant Grimbly

Cover for the 1970 edition of Island. Design by Grant Grimbly

Pagan Poetry, posted 12 Apr, 2013
Image by Charles Fréger

Babugeri, Bansko, Bulgaria, 2010–2011

From the exhibition and book Wilder Mann: The Image of the Savage published by Dewi Lewis Publishing

© Charles Fréger, courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Aeronautical, posted 17 Nov, 2012
Image by Benedict Redgrove

www.benedictredgrove.com

High Houses, posted 30 Oct, 2012
Image by Lebbeus Woods

High Houses

“These houses are not for everyone. Indeed, probably only a few could master their challenges. Yet each mastery would manifest a spirit of courage and inventive skill in the name of all who must reinvent a city transformed by destruction.”

Lebbeus Woods 1940 – 2012

LSD Grid, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Michael Wolf

Windows on Mies Van Der Rohe’s Lake Shore Drive Apartment towers. From the book The Transparent City

Grenoble University Facade, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by unknown

Worn, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Remy Labesque

from designmind

Tabi Boots, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Sou Sou

Airship, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Christian Stoll

from the series Epic

Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Ridley Scott

Clean, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Lee Mawdsley

www.leemawdsley.co.uk

It’s all about the joint, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Mathew Hilton

“Maia is a solid wood object, of intentionally non specific function, a step, a bedside table, a light table, a stool, it is made using a 5 axis cnc machine and utilising a joint detail we invented specifically for the machine.”

Pyrite 2, oil on panel, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Carly Waito

Oil painting by Carly Waito

Model, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Monty Fresco/Getty Images

Peter Chamberlain with early model of Barbican Estate

asics Onitsuka Tiger Marathon Tabi, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Martin Schneider (on Pintrest)

Barbican Ramp, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Lee Mawdsley

www.leemawdsley.co.uk

Parking, posted 16 Oct, 2012
Image by Alan Benzie

Fighting Monk, posted 05 Oct, 2012
Image by Kazumasa Ogawa, 1895

from Military Costumes in Old Japan, Photographed by K. Ogawa, Under the Direction of Chitora Kawasaki of Ko-yu-kai (Tokyo Fine Art School), Tokyo, K. Ogawa, 1895

World Cup Game Schedule, posted 05 Oct, 2012
Image by Martin Oberhäuser

Asylum Sounds CD Packaging, posted 05 Oct, 2012
Image by Asylum

Asylum

Stalker, posted 05 Oct, 2012
Image by Andrei Tarkovsky

London Bomb Damage Map, posted 05 Oct, 2012
Image by London County Council / London Metropolitan Archives

Mines Park, Cambridgeshire by 6a Architects, Model

Mines Park project model, posted 03 Oct, 2012
Image by 6a Architects

Mines Park is a sustainable country house set in 39 acres of Cambridgeshire fenland. The house and its grounds form a carbon-neutral eco system with the coppices and lakes supplying all of the energy and water for the house.

6a Architects

Is there any escape from noise?, posted 03 Oct, 2012
Image by unknown

NYC, posted 03 Oct, 2012
Image by Alan Benzie

1 Fulford Street, posted 03 Oct, 2012
Image by Alan Benzie

Huangpu River, posted 03 Oct, 2012
Image by Lee Chalmers

Milton Court, posted 03 Oct, 2012
Image by unknown

The first part of the Barbican Complex to be built in 1965, Milton Court was demolished in 2008 to make way for The Heron

Data Visualisation, posted 03 Oct, 2012
Image by designmadeingermany.de

Press eject, posted 03 Oct, 2012
Image by Deiter Rams