411acq_RECALIBRATING OLD DOHA

WHAT_architecture 30-Aug-2013
Category: WHAT_projects
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206win_ALL YOU SINGLE FOLLIES (PUT A ROCK ON IT!)

Folly (architecture): a whimsical or extravagant structure, built to serve as a conversation piece, lend interest to a view, commemorate a person or event. A temporary pavilion in 2014 for the Diamond Jubilee which was in 2012 is certainly a temporal extravagance. Yet regardless, an structure commissioned today has an unwritten desire to bring in the punters, the photos. Archi-tourism results in event souvenirs. Last weekend I was in Rome where you can buy an assortment of Fontana Trevi Fotos, Colosseum trinkets… I didn’t see a Pantheon panattone but hey! Whilst bling buildings do not have a monopoly on architectural commodification (icon jewellery), all those single follies should still give a meaningful ring to their existence! Could a bouncy castle win the Stirling Prize?

WHAT_architecture 21-Aug-2013
Category: 206win_Winchester Temp Event Space
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127sho_NIGHT TRAIN

WHAT_architecture 16-Aug-2013
Category: 127sho_Shoreditch Overground | WHAT_projects
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206win_DIAMOND PAVILION

WHAT_architecture 16-Aug-2013
Category: 000off_WHAT_process | 206win_Winchester Temp Event Space
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127sho_STATION RELOCATION PRECEDENT

As a local stakeholder has just pointed out, there was a precedent for the earlier configuration of the Shoreditch Station development which elevated the existing station from the ground to crown the new development. And that is Professor Zhang Lin’s rooftop apartment which rocks. Prof Lin has spent six years shifting rocks and rubble to the roof to create this mountaintop penthouse with its rocky mountain garden, complete with rubble and shrubbery. According to the Daily Mail, local residents have described him as a ‘menace’ after cracks and leaks appeared throughout the apartment block and repute Prof. Lin did not have planning permission for the ‘extension’… For project roles: go to Shoreditch Station Planning Permission Rigmaroles!

WHAT_architecture 12-Aug-2013
Category: 127sho_Shoreditch Overground | WHAT_projects
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141sie_FREETOWN FASHION

What Freetown might lack in high street shopping, it makes up for in street couture. The streets are teeming with some of the most resourceful, brave and outrageous fashion decisions ever made. In a country so commonly associated with civil war and blood diamonds… Jo Dunlop, an Australian, felt inspired to show a different side to Sierra Leone and reveal an unlikely fashion hotspot. We hope that the FreeTown built environment follows suit. For our FreeTown Housing project: go to 141sie_Fashion Architecture Race!

WHAT_architecture 12-Aug-2013
Category: 141sie_Freetown House | WHAT_projects
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127sho_FINAL VERSION

WHAT_architecture 09-Aug-2013
Category: 127sho_Shoreditch Overground | WHAT_projects
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129fil_MOST-PODERNISM

As we survey the silicon (sillycom?) scenery outside our Old Street roundabout office window, one can spy ‘Pod‘. Good food apparently. Back in architectural wonderland, a ‘pod’ in recessionary times has the same currency as ‘blob’ did in a more opulent era. Still we are happy for the opportunity to use the experimentation divest in housing to reappraise the pod. As a family of new objects that reverberate against the old context within which they are placed.

WHAT_architecture 07-Aug-2013
Category: 129fil_La filature | WHAT_projects
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127sho_NU HOUSING NOW!

Local demands for new housing are currently being expressed as politicised graffiti on the building itself… I heard that Nu Office is next. Followed by Nu Mixed Use.

WHAT_architecture 05-Aug-2013
Category: 127sho_Shoreditch Overground | WHAT_projects
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210qat_CAKEBAB

By chance the UCL Institute of Archeology, where we have a Research Scholar post, offers up these treats. Cake + kebab = cakekab!? A skewered edible landscape.

WHAT_architecture 02-Aug-2013
Category: WHAT_projects
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