Posts Tagged: architecture
Flats on Dundas Street 4/3/13
A typical new town flat block. Flats on the upper floors, shops and commercial on the ground. Regularly proportioned (but differently spaced) windows and a common, high quality material ties it together beautifully.
‘Its about the balance of repetition and variety, it’s almost a mathematical formula’.
Elegant Kings Cross Construction
A remarkably elegant new piece of the Kings Cross redevelopment. One Pancras Square, I think, by David Chipperfield Architects. Elegant design and elegant construction system.
New St Andrew’s House 15/03/13
An inspiring trip to the defunct New St Andrew’s House for HTA Sketchclub. Impressed by the attention to detail shown by much maligned ’60s architects…
Quartermile 13/03/13
I really like these high quality towers slotted in between the old buildings on the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary site in the middle of the town. The buildings and the masterplan are by Foster and Partners. It’s all of a high standard rarely achieved.
Cartoon in Blueprint 8/3/13
My cartoon describing the excellent Assemble & Join project our graphics team did at Lower Marsh in London was published in this month’s Blueprint magazine. Credit to Lucy Smith & Theo Adamson.
http://www.assembleandjoin.co.uk/
The Royal Thames Yacht Club 5/3/13
The Bond Club. I had a good time, so apologies to the subjects who don’t actually look as odd as they do here. 
11/01/13 First Week Back at Work
Big cake mixer in the Bakehouse and a nice, but neglected, brick building on Camden High Street. Quite enjoyed the first week back, really.
14/12/12 St James Centre, Edinburgh
The car parks are the most enduring bits of the St James Centre in Edinburgh: the shops get tarted up from time to time with little benefit and the big office that sits over it all, New St Andrews House, is shut and awaiting demolition (see below). The car parks carry on just as designed in the late 1960’s. Many people hate the concrete finishes, but its the inward looking approach that’s the problem.
Another street I found myself sitting on this week: Caledonian Road in London. A proper street with shops, pubs and cafes and a contrast to the inward looking 60’s vision in Edinburgh but equally different from the inward looking 21st century regeneration vision that surrounds it at Kings Cross.
Above: At the new Kings Cross the action is all inside: the coffee stall is introduce to add some focus. Recent travel below (why I think about Kings Cross quite a bit).
28/11/12 The community the Midland Railway created
When the Midland railway came to Derby, Francis Thompson designed a hotel, 4 shops and a pub, along with housing for the workers and a brilliant railway station. The station is gone, and 140 years on the place has lost it’s connection with the original purpose but the development remains one of Derby’s finest. Borne out of ambitious spending on infrastructure, he created a beautiful, inspiring, long lasting and simple place. We are working there now. These are the sketches of the pub and the houses.
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