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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
Aviary, London Zoo, 1962-65
Designers; Cedric Price, Frank Newby, Lord Snowdon.
More on Cedric Price here.
For Konstantin Mel'nikov's iconic design, with numerous photos, sketches, models, and reconstructions, please see: wp.me/pgGDG-2Tk
Architect: Martin Richardson, Mid to late 70s.
Martin Richardson (1929-2001) worked in LCC on schemes like Roehampton in late 50s and then moved on to design prefabricated large concrete slab housing schemes including the disastrous consortium housing scheme at Hunslet Leeds (demolished a while ago), using large concrete slabs.
This must have proved a shocking experience for him, since after a brief absence, he returned to housing with some sensitive urban designs for social housing in Milton Keynes in early to late 70s.
His first scheme at Great Linford (1973-77) was an important contribution to the housing debate and development within Milton Keynes and the country.
The second scheme at Bradwell Common followed soon after, made a great contribution to future schemes and to this day remains “happy but not clownish”.
In my opinion he was one the few British architects who saw the wrong turn the housing design had taken and within his lifetime sat down and ‘redefined’ objectives. His designs started to move towards ‘everyday’ housing closer to users' aspirations, producing schemes which looked ‘ordinary’ but were architecturally intelligent and remained quintessentially British.
He once wrote; “What is attempted is something which is reminiscent, not reproduction, expressive but not expressionistic, intelligent but not intellectual, happy but not clownish, sensible but not prosaic, functional but not functionalistic, useful but not utilitarian, economical but not mean.”
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Door deze metalen cirkels lopen rode of blauwe buizen waarin verlichting zit. Ik neem aan dat dit 's avonds een spectaculair gezicht moet zijn.
Frankfurt am Main. Begin van een 14 daagse vakantie in Duitsland.
Met een Interrail-pass Frankfurt, Würzburg, Dresden en Berlijn bezocht.
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Architects; MKDC, Derek Walker, Wayland Tunley, Dudley Allison, 1976.
A redevelopment proposal for a new supermarket and more car parking has recently been presented to the local population to seek their views before the modified plans for a proper planning application are produced. There is a web site here seeking public reactions. I wrote a detailed analysis of this project as originally built which can be seen here, and the gradual architectural degradation since taken place. It is easy to see that I am one of many admirers of this high quality building and even the remotest possibility of its destruction fills me with utter horror.
My reaction to this proposal can be seen in my Blog here.
I would implore you to look at this situation even if you do not live in or close to Stony Stratford. The possible loss of these high quality environments will lead the city on a slippery downward slope. These projects from the early days of Corporation are assets to the whole of Milton Keynes population. As the MK Centre listing recently shows. The next generation also deserves to learn the difference between the good bad and the ugly buildings they have to live with.
Originally TWA Flight Center, Terminal 5
John F. Kenedy International Airport (formerly Idlewild)
Eero Saarinen, architect
Completed 1962