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For Konstantin Mel'nikov's iconic design, with numerous photos, sketches, models, and reconstructions, please see: wp.me/pgGDG-2Tk
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.
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
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.”
Opened in 1927 as the John Rodgers Airport, named for a World War I naval officer, this was the first full-size airport to open in Hawaii, and was massively expanded between 1939 and 1943 as the adjacent Keehi Lagoon was dredged for the use of seaplanes that were also popular at the time. During World War II, the airport was commandeered by the United States Navy and was converted into Naval Air Station Honolulu, remaining closed to most civilian air travel until 1946, when it was returned to the Territory of Hawaii, having grown into one of the largest airports in the United States by this time, with four paved runways, three seaplane runways, a terminal building, and a control tower. In 1947, the airport became known as Honolulu Airport, becoming Honolulu International Airport in 1951, owing to many transpacific flights having layovers at the airport, and being one of the busiest airports in the United States during the early 1950s, as well as having the longest runway in the country in 1953 at 13,097 feet long. Jet service began in 1959 with Qantas using the airport for layovers on its service between Australia and California. In 1962, the World War II-era terminal built by the Navy was replaced by the John Rodgers Terminal, which was expanded and modernized under the direction of architect Vladimir Ossipoff between 1970 and 1980 into the current complex of modernist buildings that still serve most travelers today. The Diamond Head Concourse was the first section to open in 1970, followed by the Ewa Concourse in 1972, and the renovated and expanded Central Concourse in 1980. The complex presently still maintains most of the work of Vladimir Ossipoff, with the iconic Cultural Garden and the tall Administration Building being the two most notable elements remaining from the 1962 terminal. The airport is presently slated to undergo a major renovation and expansion, which will see the Diamond Head and Ewa Concourses designed by Ossipoff in the 1970s replaced by more contemporary structures, and the Central Concourse massively renovated, as well as major alterations to Terminal 2’s landside sections. This first phase of this project involved an expansion of Terminal 1, opened in 1993, with the addition of the new Mauka Concourse, completed in 2021. An additional change on the horizon will be the completion of the Honolulu Rail Transit System to the airport, slated to occur sometime in the next decade.
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.