TALK - DILLER

In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin.

RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - TED TALK

M06 - BRIGHTON STUDY TRIP

From Littlehampton to Brighton - a whistle-stop tour of architectural gems to found at the edge of the UK. With a big thank you to Asif Khan for being our guest and explaining his first building; the West Beach Cafe.

RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - ASIF KHANS WEBSITE

PROJECT SS - MAPPING WORKSHOP

Marshes and Tropical micro-climates, Moss Canopies and wind-swept fruit-tree Pedestrianisation...

Science + Fiction: JG Ballard would be proud.

PROJECT SS - SITE VISIT

Sunshine!

TOURS OF OXFORD

Testing the chairs at the High Table during our tour of St Catherine's College during one of our tours of Oxford. Other highlights included the Powell and Moya exhibition at the Christchurch Picture Gallery, Merton College and New College. Many thanks to Mark Swenarton, John Stevenson and also Bethan Williams of St Cats who gave their time to conduct the tours.

PROJECT EE FINAL REVIEW

We got our hands dirty, feet wet and hair blown. Dont forget to photograph the devices working in a context for your records.
Big thanks to Kim from Donnington Doorstep for taking the time to be our guest critic for the day.

STIRLING PRIZE 2008

Accordia, a housing development by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Macreanor Lavington, has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2008 for the best building by a British architect.

RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - ARCHITECTS JOURNAL
RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - DEZEEN

COMPETITION - FILM

“Story about a Place” Competition
Registration Starts: November 15, 2008
Registration Ends: December 15, 2008

“Story about a Place” is a student design competition sponsored by SMIBE. We are looking for 6-minute long videos that tell a story about a particular place. BB Projects perhaps? Let me know and we can discuss.

RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - The Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment

EXHIBITION - FUTURE NON-FUTURE

This is a small free exhibition at 36 Bedford Square but there is a lot of content: Future Non-Future brings together dozens of architectural projects for London, all of which share one key feature: they are, or currently remain, unbuilt. Featuring proposals by some of the world’s leading architects, Future Non-Future includes works by FOA, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, OMA, Zaha Hadid, Foster + Partners, Cedric Price and many others. Iconic projects by these architects have been brought together to demonstrate the remarkable (and remarkably under-acknowledged) role that projects for London have played in shaping the past, present and future of this global city, and of contemporary architectural culture worldwide.

Plus there are some rare CJ Lim Papercut propositions!

RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - AA
RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - BBC

EXHIBITION - COLD WAR

This is a great exhibition as it covers a lot of design ground. There are also a number of very famous architectural representations - Archigram and Hollein. If you are in town - check the exhbition out.

RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - VAM

FOLKESTONOMY

FOLKESTONOMY is a public mapping project by public works, commissioned as part of the Folkestone Triennial. A mobile mapping station was travelling, parking and collecting data across different public spaces in Folkestone throughout the summer 2008, in order to trace and visualise existing cultural spaces, interests and links.

RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - FOLKESTONOMY

HDM + WEI WEI

The Italian pavilion housed a number of projects by international creatives, including the installation 'mock up, beijing' by swiss architects herzog & de meuron and chinese artist ai weiwei. During the opening days of the biennale, the installation was a work in progress, allowing visitors to watch the construction of the bamboo framework which was completed by traditional builder.

RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - DESIGN BOOM

ESTUDIO TEDDY CRUZ

In the context of a post 9-11 political equator that divides the world and the city between enclaves of mega-wealth and sectors of poverty, urbanities of labor and surveillance, the formal and informal, our institutions of architecture representation and display have lost their socio-political relevance and advocacy.

RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - DESIGN BOOM
RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - ESTUDIO TEDDY CRUZ
RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - COLLAGE CITY - COLIN ROWE

COMMONWEALTH TENT

The building is a thoroughly modern pavilion, made out of brick and concrete, with the characteristic feature of a rather unusually shaped roofscape, the largest of its time - a sweeping 183 sq ft. This alone has been the main point of interest of many historians and architecture enthusiasts, and represents the period’s design and structural innovation.

RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - WALLPAPER
RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - TATE COMMONWEALTH EXHIBITION (not related)

EVERYDAY MAKING

Here are some random collections of recycled objects / furnitures that I have stumbled across in my searches:
RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - INHABITAT
RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - JAMIE WARD
RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - HOTEL BALLYMUN

BUILDING OF THE MONTH - ADJAYE ASSOCIATES

RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - ARCHITECTS WEBSITE
RIGHT CLICK THE LINK HERE - BD ONLINE ARTICLE

SCREENING - EARTH, WIND AND FIRE

PROJECT EE - SITE VISIT

REPRESENTATION - PROJECT TENT

Working in the studio - target - plan, section and elevations.

PROJECT BB - SCREENING

Well done all - the films were cracking!