[Monolith]

Zaha's offering for Romania.



See more here.

[Monolith]

A rather nice kitchen system that makes use of waste to grow plants

Check it here.

[chappers]

my christmas holiday in canada. royal ontario museum.
amazing!

[Houdini]

Working on an incredible project in Kazakhstan now, I'll pull my finger out and find some shots soon.  Few techie hurdles to jump first, watch this space.

[slackline]

my christmas holiday in canada. royal ontario museum.
amazing!

Looks like a spaceship has crashed into an old church there.

Look forward to the pics hOUD.

[Monolith]

In anticipation....

[Houdini]

Not my shot but have this as a taster.  It's more developed at this time.  It's 150m tall.



Few issues re: uploading pics from my camera...

[robertostallioni]

Are you one of these guys?


Does this guy walk round nodding and grinning?


I'm sending 006 to aid your escape.


Oh, and her.

[lagerstarfish]

Nice project Houd. Is it Norman Foster's new Teletubbies house?

[Houdini]

[jizz] Awwww Stallion, who's the minx? [/jizz]

Yes Lagers', it's the Khan Shatyr (King's Tent).  A little overdue now, original finish date was 07.  The central steel tripod weighs 2000 tonnes, the skin of the tent will be the foiltec inflateble cushion (same as the Eden Project in Cornwall).  No cushions have been installed, tensioning work is still continuing on the cable-net that will support the cushions.  It's easily the most badass structure in Kazakhstan, and will cost 100 million euro; it would cost a billion guineas if it were in the UK.

Quite an exciting moment last week.  A bright spark doing hotworks at the point where the tripod narrows at the top third started a fire:  cut thru his own acetylene hose w/ a gas axe, igniting a shitload of oily rags and scaffold planks.  Pretty soon the place was ablaze.  All four of the extinguishers in the head failed, one eventually being despatched from ground level.  A Turkish colleague of mine save the day, and possibly the entire project by descending from the head where he was working to the blaze and turning off the valve of the acetylene bottle - very brave man.  There were many full bottles stored nearby.  Had the fire continued the steel would have warped hideously - probably resulting in total collapse.  I was on the net opposite at the time, one of my Chinese hands nearly layed an egg when he saw the blaze, all he could say was:  Mr Paul!  BOOM!!  Mr Paul! BOOM!!

Ha ha, they work differently outside the UK y' know ... I'm responsible for the ropes/rigging; most of the swearing, and training peasants to be asbeilers.

 

[robertostallioni]

Its Jennifer Lovely Hewitt. Don't shag her, Bond.

[slackline]

Its internal architecture, but I thought this was rather cool...



Probably cost an arm and a leg, but followed some links the other day to DIY instructions (can't work out what the path was now!).

Be a bit of pain for non-standard size books too.

[badong]

Check out this cabin a family have spent 9 years building in Minnesota.





The idea of using shipping containers as a habitable space is an attractive one and it's nice to see someone who's done it so well.

This looks amazing but doesn't seem to have any insulation, I don't know allot about Minnesota but it looks chilly.

[Monolith]

I had the immense displeasure today in watching Liverpool University's 3rd year final BA crit. Never before have I seen so many arseholes spouting so much shit. There's a big budget for invited critics to the last review and this arsehole was present. If only you could see what an arrogant tosser he is off camera.

Let's make columns out of carcasses then eh. Well Jackson.

[Jaspersharpe]

http://londonist.com/2011/01/in-pictures-the-shard-in-2012.php

[slackline]

Completely forgot about this thread!

How about this for some cool subway/underground architecture in Stockholm?  (Loads more shots on the blog than the three below if they actually embed).

Beats the pants off of the "advertising on every available square inch" approach on the London Underground.

[Jaspersharpe]

Brilliant. Moving into Dr Evil's lair territory again there.

[duncan]

Nice and good thread resurrection.

Beats the pants off of the "advertising on every available square inch" approach on the London Underground.

Exception is the Jubilee Line Extension, especially the awesome Westminster Station which is like something out of Doom.

[slackline]

Interesting bedroom design...

[Eddies]

Not the ideal place to wake up with a raging hangover!

[SA Chris]

"Tonight you sleep with the fishes"

"Do I, that sounds cool!"

[slackline]

Of course you need Scafolding to make or repair most structures ...

[robertostallioni]

Top one looks like the ninja warrior final.

[slackline]

 

I think its the Sagrada familia.

[Paul B]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Spruce_Street

Funky