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Built by Natalie Sturdy, Revision Division Intern, The RE Store, Summer 2018
This discarded stool was given a second chance at life when Natalie, Revision Division intern, hand carved a new seat for it.
by David Spangler, Summer 2019
Made from old drawers and wooden boxes, this shelf is a perfect edition to a craftsman style home.
8x10 picture frame made from reclaimed maple flooring.
The wood in this frame came from the floor of the former Syracuse Farm Supply Warehouse in Syracuse NY. The building dates roughly from the 1940s. The owners wanted the building removed. ReUse Action (reuseaction.com) was contracted to remove as much wood as possible from the structure before the main concrete structure was demolished.
Several thousand square feet of hard maple flooring was recovered and re-sold to be used as beautiful reclaimed flooring in residential housed.
We used a few pieces of this flooring to create this picture frame. The wood shows its age and experience: years of farmer's boots shuffling across it, machines dragged across it, sacks of feed and probably even animal marks on it.
This frame has a section where white paint was spilled and ran under a shelf, counter or machine and was never wiped up.
We love all these random marks and patina that simply cannot be duplicated artificially.
This frame embodies our eco philosophy. Most components are reclaimed materials. The glass is salvaged from old stock or from window sashes. Only the glaziers points biscuits and carpenter's glue are new materials. Each is coated with Minwax water based urethane.
In the scheme these crafts make a miniscule difference in the fate of the environment. However building materials comprise the largest part of landfills. Anaerobically rotting wood and other organic components contribute significantly to climate change by releasing methane as a byproduct.
Built by David Spangler, Revision Division, The RE Store, Winter 2018
These industrial chairs were given a new lease on life when custom seats were made from scrap lumber.
Built by Natalie Sturdy, Revision Division Intern, The RE Store, Summer 2018
This discarded stool was given a second chance at life when Natalie, Revision Division intern, hand carved a new seat for it.
Constructing the new boulevard by Spanish landscape architect Manuel De Sola-Morales, Scheveningen, the Netherlands.
Serpentine Gallery Pavillion 2017, text from website copyright of serpentinegalleries.org
Summary
Diébédo Francis Kéré, the award-winning architect from Gando, Burkina Faso, was commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2017, responding to the brief with a bold, innovative structure that brings his characteristic sense of light and life to the lawns of Kensington Gardens.
Kéré, who leads the Berlin-based practice Kéré Architecture, is the seventeenth architect to accept the Serpentine Galleries’ invitation to design a temporary Pavilion in its grounds. Since its launch in 2000, this annual commission of an international architect to build his or her first structure in London at the time of invitation has become one of the most anticipated events in the global cultural calendar and a leading visitor attraction during London’s summer season. Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist and CEO Yana Peel made their selection of the architect, with advisors David Adjaye and Richard Rogers.
Inspired by the tree that serves as a central meeting point for life in his home town of Gando, Francis Kéré has designed a responsive Pavilion that seeks to connect its visitors to nature – and each other. An expansive roof, supported by a central steel framework, mimics a tree’s canopy, allowing air to circulate freely while offering shelter against London rain and summer heat.
Kéré has positively embraced British climate in his design, creating a structure that engages with the ever-changing London weather in creative ways. The Pavilion has four separate entry points with an open air courtyard in the centre, where visitors can sit and relax during sunny days. In the case of rain, an oculus funnels any water that collects on the roof into a spectacular waterfall effect, before it is evacuated through a drainage system in the floor for later use in irrigating the park. Both the roof and wall system are made from wood. By day, they act as solar shading, creating pools of dappled shadows. By night, the walls become a source of illumination as small perforations twinkle with the movement and activity from inside.
As an architect, Kéré is committed to socially engaged and ecological design in his practice, as evidenced by his award-winning primary school in Burkina Faso, pioneering solo museum shows in Munich and Philadelphia.
Serpentine Pavilion Architect's Statement:
The proposed design for the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion is conceived as a micro cosmos – a community structure within Kensington Gardens that fuses cultural references of my home country Burkina Faso with experimental construction techniques. My experience of growing up in a remote desert village has instilled a strong awareness of the social, sustainable, and cultural implications of design. I believe that architecture has the power to, surprise, unite, and inspire all while mediating important aspects such as community, ecology and economy.
In Burkina Faso, the tree is a place where people gather together, where everyday activities play out under the shade of its branches. My design for the Serpentine Pavilion has a great over-hanging roof canopy made of steel and a transparent skin covering the structure, which allows sunlight to enter the space while also protecting it from the rain. Wooden shading elements line the underside of the roof to create a dynamic shadow effect on the interior spaces. This combination of features promotes a sense of freedom and community; like the shade of the tree branches, the Pavilion becomes a place where people can gather and share their daily experiences.
Fundamental to my architecture is a sense of openness. In the Pavilion this is achieved by the wall system, which is comprised of prefabricated wooden blocks assembled into triangular modules with slight gaps, or apertures, between them. This gives a lightness and transparency to the building enclosure. The composition of the curved walls is split into four elements, creating four different access points to the Pavilion. Detached from the roof canopy, these elements allow air to circulate freely throughout.
At the centre of the Pavilion is a large opening in the canopy, creating an immediate connection to nature. In times of rain, the roof becomes a funnel channelling water into the heart of the structure. This rain collection acts symbolically, highlighting water as a fundamental resource for human survival and prosperity.
In the evening, the canopy becomes a source of illumination. Wall perforations will give glimpses of movement and activity inside the pavilion to those outside. In my home village of Gando (Burkina Faso), it is always easy to locate a celebration at night by climbing to higher ground and searching for the source of light in the surrounding darkness. This small light becomes larger as more and more people arrive to join the event. In this way the Pavilion will become a beacon of light, a symbol of storytelling and togetherness.
At the centre of the Pavilion is a large opening in the canopy, creating an immediate connection to nature. In times of rain, the roof becomes a funnel channelling water into the heart of the structure. This rain collection acts symbolically, highlighting water as a fundamental resource for human survival and prosperity.
In the evening, the canopy becomes a source of illumination. Wall perforations will give glimpses of movement and activity inside the pavilion to those outside. In my home village of Gando (Burkina Faso), it is always easy to locate a celebration at night by climbing to higher ground and searching for the source of light in the surrounding darkness. This small light becomes larger as more and more people arrive to join the event. In this way the Pavilion will become a beacon of light, a symbol of storytelling and togetherness.
Built by David Spangler, Revision Division, The RE Store, Spring 2019
An homage to the clean modernist nod to the late institutional cabinetry of the 1930s and 1940s this unit was built by connecting two existing plywood cubbyhole cabinets together, drawers made from short pieces of cvg, fir paneling, and nice plywood salvaged from a clothing store.
Réalisation d'un centre thermal et aquatique comprenant des espaces de stationnement et une résidence hôtelière dans le cadre du projet Grand Nancy Thermal.
• Réhabilitation et extension de la piscine intérieure.
• Réhabilitation et extension du bâtiment de la piscine ronde.
• Création de nouveaux bassins extérieurs.
• Création d'espaces verts et de stationnements (découverts et souterrains).
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : rue du Maréchal Juin
Fonction : Piscine
Construction : 2020 → 2023
• Architecte : Architectures Anne Démians / Chabanne & Partenaires
PC n° 54 395 19 R0043 délivré le 20 septembre 2019
Niveaux : R+3
Hauteur maximale : 26.66 m
Surface de plancher totale : 16 547 m²
Superficie du terrain : 37 248 m²
Built by David Spangler, Revision Division, The RE Store, Spring 2019
This stunning piece would be sure to brighten up any room. Crafted with a salvaged mirror and damaged CVG fir, the patina and character of this piece really shine through.
Accompanying notes provided By V&A Mueseum, London. Copyright the V&A Museum.
ELYTRA, Filament Pavilion
18 May - 6 November, 2016
Elytra is a responsive shelter. A robot will build new components of the structure on the site, allowing the canopy to grow over the course of the V&A Engineering Season. Your presnce in the pavilion today will be captured by sensors in the canopy and ultimately will affect how and where the structure grows.
The pavilion tests a possible future for architectural and engineering design, exploring how new robotics technologies might transform how buildings are designed and built. The design draws on research into lighhtweight construction principles found in nature. It is inspired by the filament structures of the shells of flying beetles, know as elytra.
Made of glass and carbon fibre, each component is produced using robotic winding technique developed by the designers. Unlike other fabrication methods, this does not require moulds and can produce an infinite variety of spun shapes, while reducing wate to a minimum. This unique method of fabrication integrates the process of design and making.
Like beetle elytra, the structure is both strong and very light. The pavilion's entire filament stutcure weighs less than 2.5 tonnes - equivalent to 1.4 by 1.4 m squared prortion of the V&A's wall around you.
Part of the V&A Engineering Season.
this building site is protected from overhead mishaps with scaffolding. in china these temporary structures become the equivalent of factory towns - sequined with satellite dishes.
by David Spangler, Summer 2019
Made from abandoned wood scraps, these beautiful wall panels will brighten any room.
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(Updated on June 9, 2025)
Looking at a portion of one building stone on the Lakeview Shelter. This structure overlooks the Superior shore on the southern side of the Gooseberry River mouth.
This close-up gives us a good opportunity to really examine both the Beaver Bay Complex Gabbro building stone and its colorful colonizer, the aptly named Elegant Sunburst Lichen (Rusavskia elegans). See the previous post's description for more on the rock's origin in the Midcontinent Rift.
Being an igneous intrusive rock, the iron-rich ferrogabbro shown here cooled and solidified from its parent magma more slowly than its overlying North Shore Volcanic Group basalt. Though the surface here is weathered, you can still make out individual crystals large enough to be seen without magnification.
And one more lichenological note: Rusavskia elegans was formerly known as Xanthoria elegans. It remains in the family Teloschistaceae.
To see the other photos and descriptions of this series, visit
my Integrative Natural History of Minnesota's North Shore album.
by David Spangler, Summer 2019
Made from abandoned wood scraps, these beautiful wall panels will brighten any room.
by David Spangler, Summer 2019
Made from old drawers and wooden boxes, this shelf is a perfect edition to a craftsman style home.
From over 1900 companies, CEMEX UK is just one of 10 companies to achieve Gold Status in the Fleet Operators Recognition Scheme (FORS) run by Transport for London (TFL).
CEMEX has been a member of the scheme since 2008 and has cement tankers, aggregate tippers and readymix concrete trucks delivering vital building materials to construction projects in London.
FORS, a voluntary certification scheme, is a method of recognizing fleet operations in the Capital that meet with the required standards covering management, vehicles, drivers and operations. The standards are based upon lawfulness, safety, efficiency and environmental protection.
Andy Taylor, Health and Safety Director, CEMEX UK comments “Our vehicles cover over 15 million miles per annum and we aim to do everything we can to reduce the risk of accidents for the benefit of everyone on the roads. Reaching the standards for the Gold level requires that our vehicles and drivers are operating to the highest standard and helping to improve road safety in the Capital.”
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by David Spangler, Summer 2019
Made from abandoned wood scraps, these beautiful wall panels will brighten any room.
by David Spangler, Summer 2019
Made from abandoned wood scraps, these beautiful wall panels will brighten any room.
This series complements my award-winning guidebook, Chicago in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Windy City's Architectural Geology. Henceforth I'll just call it CSC.
The CSC section and page reference for the building featured here: 9.2; pp. 142-144.
Looking down one of the grand stairways leading from street level down to the Waiting Room.
Here the warmer tones of the Quaternary-age Tivoli Travertine, quarried east of Rome, Italy, are contrasted with the grayer Ordovician-age Holstone Limestone ("Tennessee Marble") of the Waiting Room flooring. More on that anon.
The Tivoli is found in the columns, stair treads and risers, and lower-level walls. On the steps it assumes an uncharacteristic roseate hue because of the overhead lighting.
For more on this site, get and read Chicago in Stone and Clay, described at its Cornell University Press webpage.
The other photos and discussions in this series can be found in my "Chicago in Stone and Clay" Companion album. In addition, you'll find other relevant images and descriptions in my Architectural Geology: Chicago album.