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Alex Warren Architecture | Building Visits: 'How's Leeds Arena doing?'
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Saturday, 17 September 2011. How's Leeds Arena doing? Pictures below (you can see the noticeable change in steelwork during the 24 hour period between Thursday and Friday): Click to enlarge:. On another note it was refreshing to see so much development in Leeds on my walk up the city to the arena site. On approaching Leeds the Bauman Lyons scheme at Tower Works is beginning to take shape, with what I presume is the first phase of brick clad office space located next to the largest, most ornate tower.
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Alex Warren Architecture | Architectural Interests: Successful but Unethical Architecture?
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Monday, 8 November 2010. Successful but Unethical Architecture? I'm intrigued by two building projects featuring designing spaces for animals. One is a dog grooming centre designed by Square One Interiors, and the other an elephant house in Copenhagen Zoo, designed by Foster and Partners. Http:/ www.archdaily.com/86679/unleashed-dog-spa-square-one-interiors/#more-86679. Http:/ www.archdaily.com/1323/in-progress-elephant-house-foster-partners/. Moving to a larger scale now, I'm interested in Foster's elep...
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Alex Warren Architecture | Interesting Books: Jorge Luis Borges - The Library of Babel
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Monday, 7 February 2011. Jorge Luis Borges - The Library of Babel. I've been puzzling the architecture of Borges' Library of Babel all day, as I am doing a presentation on it in a week. The mythical/fictional library is made up identical hexagonal galleries, connected to infinite other hexagonal galleries in the X, Y and Z axis. In the centre of each gallery is a ventilation shaft surrounded by a low handrail, so librarians looking up the void can see infinite stories/layers of identical book shelves.
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Alex Warren Architecture | Interesting Books: October 2010
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Monday, 25 October 2010. Architectural Graphics: Francis D.K. Ching. I could have scanned every page in this book. Ching's drawings are excellent, informative and are usually self-explanatory. As a resource tool for university, the book is useful in ways such as explaining how to draw doors, windows and materials correctly; but it is also useful in stimulating the creative mind in terms of layout, and of different ways of drawing the same scene. The light building on dark background also helps render par...
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Alex Warren Architecture | Building Visits: February 2011
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Wednesday, 16 February 2011. Wren's Library, Cambridge. When walking around potential design/building sites in Cambridge, we took a detour to Wren's Library. No photos were allowed in the library itself, so the internal images are taken from the University website. The first thing I noticed when approaching the building was that the entire ground floor seemed to have no purpose to it - giant stone columns support the library on the first floor above. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Alex Warren Architecture | Interesting Books: Architectural Graphics: Francis D.K. Ching
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Monday, 25 October 2010. Architectural Graphics: Francis D.K. Ching. I could have scanned every page in this book. Ching's drawings are excellent, informative and are usually self-explanatory. As a resource tool for university, the book is useful in ways such as explaining how to draw doors, windows and materials correctly; but it is also useful in stimulating the creative mind in terms of layout, and of different ways of drawing the same scene. The light building on dark background also helps render par...
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Alex Warren Architecture | Interesting Books: March 2011
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Saturday, 26 March 2011. Nathan Marsh Pusey Library (Harvard), Massachusetts. Cornell University Library, New York. There are immediate advantages and disadvantages to building underground, environmental, psychological and physiological. All three I feel are important to my scheme:. The psychological considerations, however, I find much more interesting. Another thing I find interesting is the perceived psychological effects underground:. The image below is the Civil and Mineral Engineering Building at t...
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Alex Warren Architecture | Building Visits: Leeds Arena (Under Construction)
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Sunday, 27 March 2011. Leeds Arena (Under Construction). I had a quick look at the site of Leeds Arena earlier, which with its green honeycomb facade will be Leeds latest large piece of modern architecture in the city, due to be completed in two years time. This video shows a very directional piece of architecture - a vibrant, dynamic facade (based on a Voronoi diagram). Facing west and its backside facing the motorway and the student accommodation behind (east). These green pieces remind me of. My blogs...
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Alex Warren Architecture | Building Visits: June 2012
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Wednesday, 20 June 2012. And http:/ www.tower-works.com/. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My blogs document external work such as building visits, study trips, lectures, books and documentaries; as well as feedback from portfolio reviews and project critical studies; with the aim that I learn from all these experiences and improve my architectural understanding; which will in turn inform my design decisions to ultimately create more interesting and appropriate pieces of work. View my complete profile.
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Alex Warren Architecture | Building Visits: November 2010
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Friday, 19 November 2010. I had to visit the National Glass Centre in Sunderland as part of a technical project study assignment, but thought it was worth writing a quick blog about it too. It was raining heavily when I visited the building, so all the exterior photos in this blog are all sourced from Gollifer Architects' website. I enjoyed walking around the building - I was visiting primarily to look at the architecture, but I was sucked into the interesting exhibitions, and spent a while listening to ...
