Posts Tagged: architecture
Almere – 10 June 2013
Cale Road School – 6 June 2013
A sunny day in Perth reviewing where we’ve got to and looking at what still needs done.
We’re converting Caledonian Road School for Caledonia Housing Association, a good match if ever there was one. Needs an art gallery in the lofty central space though. This space has interlocking stairs so that the boys, who came in from the south, need never encounter the girls, who came in from the north. There used to be a fence down the middle of the playground to complete the segregation.
Kings Cross – 5 June 2013
Chipperfield’s Kings Cross building which looks a lot less smart now they’ve started sticking on the half round cast iron columns. Trying to plan ahead a bit for links with London.
MS didn’t come across that well!
HTA Talks – Philip Stewart – 4 June 2013
I liked how Philip combined a passion for making things and the understanding the qualities of materials with an interest in what brands were all about. For brands, read clients, and we’d like to be the same.
I think I stayed locally which is why I ate in Camino but so busy just now that I can’t even remember.
Sketching at Kings Cross with HTA 29 May 2013
Sketching with the London office before a couple of beers and then a trip up to Derby. 
The big public space outside St Martin’s art school is quite harsh, though softened by the sound of the intermittent waterfalls. When the area is redeveloped, and it’s all quite high density and tightly packed, this space will seem supremely luxurious.
My fellow sketchers drawings are here:
http://www.hta.co.uk/news/posts/new-item-3
Looking for the Brunswick Centre 15 May 2013
I went out on a pleasant London evening to draw Patrick Hodgkinson’s inspiring Brunswick Centre, but ended up in the Marquis Cornwallis where there wasn’t much of a view of the building. I’ll go back some time when it’s less busy and I can get a seat in the window.
I’m told it’s made of brick, and that that was the end of Hodgkinson, but from looking at it I can’t believe it’s true…
Broughton Street 13 May ’13
Buildings might be quite hard to design but at least there are plenty of the around to have a look at. Looking at the ordinary done well on the corner of Broughton Street.
Stuffed shirts and their antidote 24/04/13
I was left a bit uninspired by the banality of the middle management working life and then Tim Crocker did HTA’s Tuesday talk and added a little inspiration.
www.timcrocker.co.uk
Beautiful Facades on Currently Unloved Buildings, No1- 19/04/13
A simple building off St Andrew’s Square in Edinburgh. Nice proportions, materials and details, but tired and unloved looking. There are lots like this, and there’s a lot to be learned from looking at them.
The City, on the day of Maggie’s funeral 17/04/13
I had a pleasant walk through the traffic free city on the day of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral. This is the enormous Cheesegrater building by Rogers Stirk Harbour. The scale, in relation to the adjacent Lloyds, is incredible, the lobby alone is about five storeys high. I wonder what they’ll put in it? 
Below is Paul Finch giving an insightful talk to HTA the night before. The Thatcher legacy was the main topic, really. 
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