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By Sherrie Thai of ShaireProductions. Feel free to download and use these as a background for commercial or noncommercial projects. If you decide to use them, please let me know how it goes by sending a link or an image. Enjoy!
25 October 2015 In Brick Lane looking north. A blue sign (middle-left of the photo) reads: "City - ½".It points westward along Hanbury Street to the boundary of the "City of London" - the original 'square mile'.
Marvellous Bazaar or Contested Space?
The architect and urbanist § Andrés Duany makes some fascinating points about city transects. He describes how in cities like Rome and Paris "the diversity is marvellous" as you move across invisible "lines" which signal different city sections.
As inequality widens in London I've been more keenly aware that these lines can also be what the architect Irena Bauman calls disconnections.
In her book How to be a Happy Architect she gives examples of physical disconnections in buildings and streets. These are due to a range of causes - including, she says, poor planning; deprivation and fear; and rigid organisations.
She's especially interested in "the edge" where a successful city centre meets what she calls a "rim of disconnection".
"Throughout our work we perceive that disconnection in
the physical fabric of towns and cities is reflected in the
disconnections between different economic and ethnic
sectors of our society."
— Irena Bauman How to be a Happy Architect p.123
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§ Updated link to a brief video with Irene Bauman talking with Martin Wainwright about the city "edge" in Leeds. (Start at 1:58. Checked 18Nov 15)
§ Take a walk (or a virtual walk) from the City of London - historically the location of economic wealth and power. (And until the Great Fire of London (1666) London's eastern edge where the countryside began.)
Begin, say, in Bishopsgate. Then walk eastwards; maybe along Middlesex Street. Past the tower in this photo. Through the now fashionable Spitalfields and Brick Lane. And then eastwards through the public housing estates of Tower Hamlets.
JT built this and it has something to do with North Carolina government, but no one could give me a straight answer between whether it was a zoo or an aviary.
Well, I just go to the MOST glamorous locations with work. Today, a housing estate near Luton; straight out of the set of The Bill, complete with 2 weaselly looking blokes accompanying their equally stoat-like friend in his shiny suit to his court appearance. Or wedding maybe, it's hard to tell sometimes.
The architects had thoughtfully decided to put in a design feature on one of the end walls... a series of bricked up windows. Like they wanted to make sure it was just as depressing as it could be.
On the plus side, I didn't get mugged.
This is some sort of tutorial on how I do my brick wall backgrounds. Though scrapbooking papers can give you a very realistic and easy brick background, sometimes I love to make a "real" wall with texture and color.
The wall is made out of styrofoam, the window is made of foamboard.
Another great way to add realism is by using sand paper and pressing it with the help of a ball tool onto the foam surface. The bricks will looks as if they have pores. Use different grades of sandpapers so it doesn't look the same everywhere.
The brick wall at a corner of an old church in suburban Melbourne shows some wear and tear with an odd one standing out.