Monthly Archives: October 2012
High Houses
Written on October 30, 2012 at 15:46, by alan
High HousesĀ “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
Written on October 16, 2012 at 15:36, by alan
Windows on Mies Van Der Rohe’s Lake Shore Drive Apartment towers. From the book The Transparent City
It’s all about the joint
Written on October 16, 2012 at 12:25, by alan
“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.”
Model
Written on October 16, 2012 at 12:10, by alan
Peter Chamberlain with early model of Barbican Estate
Fighting Monk
Written on October 5, 2012 at 15:57, by alan
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
Mines Park project model
Written on October 3, 2012 at 22:45, by alan
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
Milton Court
Written on October 3, 2012 at 17:15, by alan
The first part of the Barbican Complex to be built in 1965, Milton Court was demolished in 2008 to make way for The Heron