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These were initial sketches of various design ideas for a low-rise building (and logo for the project), to be shown to my client for my Design and Technology project. I believe they communicate my ideas well.
William Smith Building by Pick Everard. Visit www.pickeverard.co.uk. For details visit www.nhit-shis.org/william-smith-building-modern-architect...
Project: Capital Ship "CS - Ecliption"
Faction: Void Pirate
A pirates gotta eat! This mess hall is built on top of an aquatic tank filled with fish and divers. The transparent floor is actually road plates (Colour doesn't exist IRL). It seats hundreds of pilots and crew with flat screen panels for televised entertainment. There is a minifig at the entrance for scale purposes.
The Pittock Mansion was home to Portland pioneers Henry and Georgiana Pittock from 1914 to 1919. During the late 1800s and the early 1900s, their lives and work paralleled the growth of Portland from a small Northwest town site to a thriving city with a quarter million population. With its eclectic architectural design and richly decorated interior, including family artifacts, the Pittock Mansion stands today as a living memorial of this family’s contributions to the blossoming of Portland and its people.
English-born Henry Lewis Pittock journeyed on a wagon train from Pennsylvania to Oregon in 1853 where, at the young age of 19, and in his own words, “barefoot and penniless,” he began working for Thomas Jefferson Dryer’s Weekly Oregonian newspaper. In 1860, at the age of 26, he married 15-year-old Georgiana Martin Burton of Missouri. Six years prior, Georgiana had crossed the plains from Keokuk, Iowa to Oregon Territory with her parents. Georgiana’s father E.M. Burton was a flour mill owner and one of early Portland’s well known building contractors.
Together, Henry and Georgiana began a long life of work, community service, and devotion to family, which would last 58 years and celebrate six children and eighteen grandchildren.
A consummate businessman, Henry Pittock took ownership of the Weekly Oregonian in 1860, changing its format to the daily paper we read today. He went on to build an empire incorporating real estate, banking, railroads, steamboats, sheep ranching, silver mining, and the pulp and paper industry.
Georgiana dedicated herself to improving the lives of the community’s women and children. She helped found the Ladies Relief Society in 1867, whose Children’s Home provided care, food, and shelter for needy children. Georgiana also worked with the Woman’s Union, and played a key role in building the Martha Washington Home for single, working women.
The couple was known for their quiet reserve, helpful demeanor, and love for the outdoors. Georgiana cherished gardening, and kept a terraced flower garden at the mansion covered with every kind of flower imaginable. She frequently adorned her house with cut flowers, and is recognized for originating the tradition of Portland’s annual Rose Festival.
A vigorous outdoorsman, Henry rode horses in the Rose Festival parades, and was a member of the first party to climb Mt. Hood, one of the spectacular peaks visible from the mansion. On one of his climbing expeditions, someone suggested that the group sit down and rest, at which point Henry responded, “The man who sits down never reaches the top.”
Henry and Georgiana were at the pinnacle of their successful lives when they commissioned architect Edward Foulkes to design and build their new home overlooking Portland, the city they loved.
They began planning and designing their new home in 1909. The mansion was completed in 1914, replete with stunningly progressive features including a central vacuum system, intercoms, and indirect lighting. The house also creatively incorporated Turkish, English, and French designs. In keeping with their loyalty to their home state, the Pittocks hired Oregon craftsmen and artisans, and used Northwest materials to build the house. The final estate included the mansion, a three-car garage, a greenhouse, and the Italianate gate lodge servants’ residence, all situated on 46 acres of land almost 1,000 feet above downtown Portland.
At 80 and 68 respectively, Henry and Georgiana moved to their new home. The hard-working couple who had lived in the heart of Portland as it developed from a forest clearing to a bustling business center, now resided high in the hills, with a breathtaking vista of their beloved Portland. It was a warm and gracious house for both the adults and children of the family.
Georgiana died in 1918 at the age of 72, and Henry in 1919 at 84. The Pittock family remained in residence at the mansion until 1958, when Peter Gantenbein, a Pittock grandson who had been born in the house, put the estate on the market.
The threat of demolition at the hands of land developers, and the extensive damage caused by a storm in 1962, brought concerned citizens together to raise funds to preserve the site. Seeing this popular support, and agreeing that the house had tremendous value as a unique historic resource, the City of Portland purchased the estate in 1964 for $225,000. Fifteen months were spent restoring it. The mansion opened to the public in 1965, and has been a community landmark ever since.
A house of historical significance and visual magnificence, the Pittock Mansion today offers us a uniquely personal opportunity to peek into the past, and study our world as it was - from the viewpoint of one Portland family
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This school is interesting in at least a couple ways. It was built in the late 1930s - the only new school built in Seattle during the Great Depression - and the architecture has some cool transitory details between the "traditional" Seattle school designs of the 1910s/1920s and the wave of Mid-Century schools built after WW II.
Demographically, Minor has straddled the racial/population shifts between white, well-to-do Capitol Hill just north and (what used to be) the largely African-American Central District just south. Minor was closed a few years ago when Seattle's school population was in decline; now that it is growing again we are recommending it be modernized (keeping the design intact) and re-opened in the near future. The city is upzoning parcels left and right in Downtown and First Hill, and we are expecting about 500 more elementary kids in the area by 2020.
On my quest for a restroom i now look down the corridor to my left, it is pretty dark, but there is a cool looking Fiat hiding down there. I have a passion for small cars, so I walk towards it, and as I pass the first door on the left, I see the international sign of all bladderemptying establishments, the universal man and woman symbols on the door. Whoohoo!
I am beginning to think that the architects behind the school of architecture WANT to make it hard to find the way. You can't see the small man/woman icons in this badly litt corridor until you are just a few feet away. If you are seeing impaird, you will NEVER find them.
I hope the students that study architecture here learns what NOT to do by watching their own building, because being a first time user of this facility really sucks.
Cities are not attractive because they are large sprawling places, but because they turn into poles of culture, administration, and production.Principles of the Quartier des Arts: it's a crescent"s place with market, shops ,cultural center and housing.
Home Exterior Architecture Design
Home Exterior Architecture Design, 1600 x 1097, 417 KB, www.interiordev.com/ideas/warna-cat-exterior-rumah.html
Student Housing in Epinay, France by ECDM. Visit www.combarel-marrec.com. Photography by Benoit Fougeirol. Visit www.benoitfougeirol.com
Architectural Design: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM)
The airport replaced the Previous International Terminal. It was opened in 2014 and it handles both domestic and international passengers. Its passenger traffic was about 49.8 million in year 2018. (Wikipedia)
This studio aimed to develop and further a students' understanding of architecture by studying the intersection of at, design and materials science. Three primary exercises helped develop student’s techniques of drawing, making and organizing structures. This course was specifically created to play off students' non-architectural education by introducing a domain of investigation whereby students learned to design through the lens of cross-disciplinary experimentation.
Throughout the semester students investigated generative art, design and materials science through the lens of “pattern formation” and attempted to extract principles, learned techniques and developed strategies for design. By studying the formation of materials students explored both the fundamental science as well as new advances in research to understand the building blocks of matter, organizational patterns, processes of material creation and micro-to-macro material behavior. To draw comparison, students also researched both contemporary and historic works of generative art and design to understand the rules, logic and components of the work and how high-level patterns emerge from local interaction. These seemingly opposite fields converged and become precedents for three exercises: 1. Generative drawings, 2. New material formations and 3. Living objects / growing structures.
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Photo by Sharon Lacey