A friend shared this video and thought it was quite funny and truthful XD

Fosters The Bow in Calgary

Foster and Partners new 237 metre high building in Calgary is to be unveiled this week it bares clear resemblance to previous Foster designed buildings such as the the triangular grid like pattern on its facade just like the facade on the 30 st. Mary's Axe.

Cafe Lincoln Model Making

My favorite part of the project is model making as it is the nearest thing to reality and is what sells your ideas to the client (or tutors). In this project I made a site model and a model of my cafe that can be placed in the site model as well as a larger model made of Plastikard.

Rick Mather

Rick Mather Architect responsible for the design of the Architecture Building at he University of Lincoln has died at the age of 75. As well as our very own architure building, he redesigned the Ashmolean art gallery in Oxford and the Times HQ in London.

Micro lofts

Been a while since I last posted but I've been reading online news about micro lofts and small city living. These small dwellings allow for affordable sufficient place to live in a sought after area. They have their origins in the dense metropolitan cities of Tokyo and Hong Kong and are starting to take off in New York. Planning regulations make this modern form of living difficult to begin though pilot schemes in New York are set to go ahead to check the feasibility of micro lofts. From Specht Harpman this is an example of a relatively large micro loft that has recently had some acclaim http://www.spechtharpman.com/residential/west_73rd_street_residence.php

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZSdrtEqcHU this is a quick tour of a NYC micro loft photos to come

Toyo Ito gets Pritzker prize

The 71 year old Japanese architect has been announced the latest winner of the Pritzker prize in architecture.

“Toyo Ito is a creator of timeless buildings, who at the same time boldly charts new paths,” the Pritzker jury said in its citation. “His architecture projects an air of optimism, lightness and joy and is infused with both a sense of uniqueness and universality.”

One of his buildings The Sendai Mediatheque rose to fame after surviving the 2011 earthquake in Japan

Cafe Lincoln site model

As a part of my new project I have made a 1:200 site model of the context around the site on which I am planning on building a cafe. Here are the first pictures of the progress made so far.