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A tired Victorian house in south west London, has been reconfigured and refurbished to create a stylish modern, architect designed home.
Refurbishment of a luxury apartment in Knightsbridge, London. We renovated the whole house and added a glass box extension to the rear to link the kitchen / dining room with the garden.
Photo by the Franco-Russian historian and Sovietologist Anatole Kopp, 1966.
For an evaluation of Kopp's pioneering work on Soviet avant-garde architecture, as well as his photos of modernist buildings in the USSR, please see: wp.me/pgGDG-2SB
One of the 5 Towers of 'The Barcode Development'
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Stanislav Kolíbal - Czech Embassy, London 1969
Text Copyright of the Embassy of the Czech republic in London, January 2020:
"When the new building of the Czechoslovak Embassy in London was opened in 1969, the distinctive work of sculptor Stanislav Kolíbal (b. 1925) permanently entered the local public space. The relief of white concrete, occupying 18 meters of the parterre of the administrative and residential building (today the Embassy of the Czech Republic), was created at the direct request of architects Jan Šrámek and Jan Bočan. The exhibition uncovers not only the background of the creation of this unique artistic realization, which forms an integral whole with the brutalist building, but also other unrealized designs by Kolíbal's interior garden of the embassy, which is one of his most complex sculptural-architectural works. The exhibition is complemented by up-to-date video interviews with Stanislav Kolíbal and with one of the architects of the building, Zdeněk Rothbauer, who also cooperated with Kolíbal on later projects. The exhibition also mentions photographer Jan Svoboda, who congenially documented Kolíbal's works, including the sculpture Separated Matter (1966), in the 1960s and 1970s. It eventually decorated the garden of the London Embassy as a dominant artistic element".
www.mzv.cz/london/en/culture_and_education/what_s_up_in_c...
In the interim I thought it also might be interesting to upload here some of the photos I took during Wikimania 2018 that I cannot upload to Commons, i.e. photos of single works of architecture.
Like Italy, South Africa does not recognize freedom of panorama. However, whereas in Italy this was deliberate, it seems to have resulted from an oversight in South Africa. Copyright law there allows for *moving* images of architectural works to be considered original, perhaps to protect the producers of TV shows and movies from suit, but when that law was passed someone forgot to include still images as well. Hopefully that oversight will be corrected someday soon.
Anyway, during lunch break (actually midday break, as the organizers of this year's Wikimania had the great idea to allow lunch to be served for several hours, allowing us to space it out rather than cramming into several dining rooms at once as we have been doing at the last several Wikimanias (like this one held in the sort of ritzy hotels that can accommodate large international conferences with a thousand or more attendees on a given day) I, along with others, went out to check out the neighborhood of Cape Town's CBD.
It sort of reminded me of some Canadian city, with the brutalist and 1970s modernist architecture, this plaza here a few blocks away in the pedestrian mall, and most of all the bare trees since, after all, we are in the Southern Hemisphere here and it *is* wintertime (It was actually in the 70s Fahrenheit when I took this picture, so I was in short sleeves, but the many Capetonians around and about took no chances (we were fortunate to be in the middle of a warm spell) and were often wearing sweat shirts and sometimes jackets over them (I'm not going to smile; when we have warm spells in our winters I and others often do the same thing).
After I took these pictures a security guard shooed me away. Was he enforcing the copyright law?
A tired Victorian house in south west London, has been reconfigured and refurbished to create a stylish modern, architect designed home.
Refurbishment of a luxury apartment in Knightsbridge, London. We renovated the whole house and added a glass box extension to the rear to link the kitchen / dining room with the garden.
Senior project architect, managed preliminary design through construction administration. Program includes re-imagining the old facade and boundary site walls, compliant access, lighting and branding. Bauer Architects, Photo: Tom Lamb
Refurbishment of a luxury apartment in Knightsbridge, London. We renovated the whole house and added a glass box extension to the rear to link the kitchen / dining room with the garden.
For Konstantin Mel'nikov's iconic design, with numerous photos, sketches, models, and reconstructions, please see: wp.me/pgGDG-2Tk