The rooftop track of Fiat’s Lingotto plant in 1925
“Car assembly began on the bottom floor, and the vehicles progressed to a fuller state of finish up a series of ramps from one floor to the next until they reached the building’s top level. It was here that the vehicles were started and driven around a banked test track on the rooftop.” - Jerry Garrett, NYTimes.
Love it.
GW
Forum
Image showing visualisation of the Forum network over a map of Harehills, Leeds.
Forum
Forum is an ongoing project working alongside the Leeds community organisation, Community Action to Change Harehills (CATCH), and local Harehills residents. The brief was to change a wasteland area that had become the centre for drug use and violent crime into a community cricket pitch. Our creation has gone way beyond this. By coming together and through many hours of sweat and tears (no blood), we have created a truly sustainable urban regeneration project in the heart of a neglected community. This evolving urban design concept provides a real depth of opportunities for the local community.
The Forum is a centre for education, hands on training, cross community relations, creativity, culture, stimulating play and provides multiple and realistic income opportunities. Its strength is in its ability to adapt and evolve with the changing social and economic demographic of the area, providing a resilient framework for the future. The main concept of Forum revolves around the hub created through the implementation of a community nursery, social club, community cafe, outdoor education centre, urban farm, local market and events space into a unified area. The outward connection network through other community organisations and social enterprises in Harehills, integrates and concentrates positive intervention functioning sporadically across an entire community into a specific space.
Construction phase 1 begins in June 2012. More information about the project is available by contacting myself or CATCH directly.
This video is my creation for an interactive public exhibition that accompanied the unveiling of the project.
Behind The Scenes at the National Air and Space Museum: A Blending of Photography and X-Ray:
An x-ray of Alan Shepard’s Apollo 14 spacesuit allows curators and conservators to “see” inside space clothing—a task that had previously been done by peering through the neck or the wrist with a flashlight.See also. (Together.) Photograph: Mark and Roland Cunningham.
The Leeds Eye
My entry for the public art commission for Munro House on Duke Street, Leeds. A contrast to the ferris wheel craze spawned by The London Eye, that swept the UK’s major cities in recent years, and a personal response to the hidden gaze of many eyes looking down on you from behind this historic buildings many windows.
A visit to the London Eye allows you to look down over a whole city, a visit to the Leeds Eye allows the whole city to look down on you and you alone. Motion sensors along the street level windows of Munro House trigger the projected eye to fix its stare on you and follow you as you walk along the buildings edge. This fixed stare allows for a unique level of interaction with the city and building from street level. The intention is that the cities individuals will play with the eye and try and escape its stare. The gateway location of Munro House, close to a major junction of the cities road and rail networks will mean the eye will be visible to hundreds of thousands of commuters each year. Their only experience of Leeds may be a glimpse of or even from the eye.
http://theculturevulture.co.uk/blog/artist-opportunities/munro-house-commission/
(via thesmalleningworld)
Nurturing nature…(via The Invisible Bridge of RO&AD Architects | Yatzer)
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
GLASS SKYSCRAPER AT FRIEDRICHSTRASSE (BERLIN, 1922) ON THE COVER OF ‘G’ MAGAZINE NO.3, 1924
…cool buildings deserve cool graphic design
hannes caspar, ‘haus am see’, via pytr75
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