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Architects; Ahrends, Burton & Koralek, 1964.
This building when visited by me as a student in 1967 left a lasting impression and I was unable to get it out of my mind. I knew it was listed but I also heard that it was no longer owned but the church and has changed its function which can often create a mismatch and spell disaster for the original building.
It was designed as residential accommodation with 35 study bedrooms and three small flats for tutors and a caretaker’s flat to make the college fully residential.
The client gave the architects considerable freedom in developing the distinct design which has now become a residential home for the elderly. The original design concept was based on a circulation route between an existing nearby chapel, the new building and an old existing residential building. Some of these circulation spaces had to be enclosed for the new frail users but the integrity of original design is still proving strong enough not only to accept the change of use but I am informed is highly popular with a long list of tenants waiting for a place to move in. The old library with beautiful roof lights has made a wonderful dining/sitting area. The building now sits among new housing and other development and has lost its dominance over an open landscape with its bold forms and the mature tree. The new rather ‘flowery’ approach to landscape no doubt appeals to the users of the building and once again the old sombre looking building seems to sit there like a contented grandparent with colourful toys belonging to the grandchildren in its lap.
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The Spring Street Salt Shed in Lower Manhattan holds around 4,000 tons of salt, piled 40 feet high. It was designed by Dattner Architects to resemble a grain of salt.
I have never been to Sydney, but this could be Amsterdam's future landmark on the water (Eye filminstitute).
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The new information centre at the Cairns Botanical Gardens Cultural Precinct will be a photographer's delight - ie if you are into weird shapes, lines, reflections with all mirrored walls & ceilings. Quite amazing really. This is just a little snippet of it.
The mirrors reflect the trees, the gardens and tropical blue skies. Will be magnificent in its own right when completed. Hope all these mirrors will stand up to any future cyclones that we might endure.
Architects; Amanda Levete Architects (previously Future Systems). 2008-.
The current London office/shops mini series is coming to an end with another Amanda Levete building (previously of Future Systems) in Hills Place, a small side street on Oxford Street. This was another rather mundane 60s building which has been given a new elevational treatment and refurbishment inside.
The idea of projecting, tilted windows is attributed to ‘slashes’ in canvasses by the Argentinean artist Lucio Fontana. The eye-lid like windows within a silvery shiny surface appear well detailed, refined and eye catching when approached from either direction.
The ever changing reflections and colour variation on the curved surfaces are dramatic to say the least.
The curved elevation has been created by using 140 mm tongued and grooved aluminium planks fixed to rail between old structure and new cladding, using traditional, almost archaic techniques like hand shaping of polystyrene and keeping it in place with ‘toothpicks’ on site.
However, the earlier question about the ‘skin design and formation’ and its integration with the ‘building structure’ behind remains unanswered. Not a dissimilar dilemma as earlier seen in Selfridges in Birmingham.
designed by Sauerbruch Hutton. Sheffield
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