Technical College Ultimo

Edited 6 Sept 2013. This post was about tours of the Ultimo College - a very fine building by William E Kemp. I don't think these tours still run though. Kemp also designed the Bourke St Public School in Surry Hills. UTS's own Dr Kirsten Orr is also a fan of Kemp's, so you should bother her about him and his work - try to bully her into a lecture.

AMUNT

I don't know if any of you still check this blog now that semester has finished (well, except for marking), but Designboom have just published this lovely project by a German firm called AMUNT. Very nice the way they have arranged 2 dwellings into a very small space - could have been a useful precedent for you.

Whitney Museum Extension, OMA

More at the OMA website

Paris - fast

I expect none of you will have time today to watch this (see you all later) and it is almost 10 minutes long, but this is a fabulous and irresponsible way to see Paris.

It is Claude Lelouch's 1976 film C'était un Rendezvous. See wikipedia for more information. Apologies in advance for the cheesy ending.

Sadly also used for the video of Snow Patrol's rather lame song Open Your Eyes

Casa Garoza, Herreros Arquitectos

Video of the construction of the Casa Garoza by Herreros Arquitectos below. More at Designboom.

Herreros Arquitectos - Casa Garoza 10.1 Montaje 1 día from Herreros Arquitectos on Vimeo.

Juror 3 - Anthony Gill

Anthony Gill of Anthony Gill Architects will also be coming in. Photograph below of Restaurant Berta is by Peter Bennetts.

Juror 2 - Marcus Trimble

Marcus Trimble of Bennett and Trimble and Super Colossal will be coming in. Image below of the Goldcoast Cultural and Civic Precinct Master Plan Competition win by Supercolossal (Marcus, Matthew Bennett and Erin Field)

Juror 1 - Huw Turner

Huw Turner of Collins and Turner will be returning for your final crits. Photograph below by Richard Glover.

Sadly, Georgina Blix is not available for your final juries.

Peter Zumthor

A little bit amazed to learn that some of you do not know Peter Zumthor's work. Please Google him. All his buildings are extraordinary. A few photos of the Kolumba Museum in Cologne by Helene Binet below (source is Dezeen):

Pecha Kucha, Sydney, Volume 18

Marcus Trimble has advised that Pecha Kucha Sydney is on again tomorrow night (Thursday 2nd June) at the Carriageworks.

More Info

Tickets

Anthony Gill, a friend of mine, will be presenting with many others.

Anish Kapoor, Olympic Orbit Tower

BD Online has shown time-lapse footage of construction of the London Olympic Orbit Tower by Anish Kapoor with Arup and Ushida Findlay:

How are we going?

Last day of studio before juries. For this reason, please bring in as much of your work as possible, in whatever its current form. Please think about how you would summarize your ideas and strategies in no more than 2 sentences. We'll use tomorrow as a rehearsal for your juries. Please be prompt (as almost all of you have been all semester - BTW thank you, it is appreciated), and spread your work out as soon as you get to studio.

Mae Klong Market

Archivo Municipal de Toledo

I mentioned to Vivienne yesterday that many of Spain's cities have Municipal Archives. This is an image of the Archivo Municipal de Toledo by Mendaro Corsini. This beautiful photo is from a Flickr set by Pablo Echávarri. Mr Echávarri has beautiful photographs that are worth a look (his Flickr page here), including the Guggenheim in Bilbao (Gehry) and the Thermal Baths in Vals (Zumthor).

Automated warehouse

Here's a short video on automated storage systems. Lots more if you Google automated storage or automated warehouse.

SESC Pompéia / Lina Bo Bardi

Plataforma Arquitectura have been kind enough to publish a little feature on one of my favorite projects by one of my favorite architects: the SESC Pompéia by Lina Bo Bardi.

Images below from their feature (first photo by Pedro Kok, second from Usuario de Talleravd LG A77)

HdeM, 56 Leonard St

I think we may have briefly discussed this in studio. A nice example of the increasingly tired idea of "let's just stack things up". This is a project by Herzog de Meuron for NYC:

Neutelings Riedijk, Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp

One of last year's jurors, Mark Gazy, pointed out this scheme after mid-semester juries. See post here.

What is lovely and relevant is how this scheme celebrates the vertical spiral circulation - actually a network of closed and open spaces (reminiscent of Lin Seen's ideas).

It can be seen at the Neutelings Riedijk website, and at Bustler, which has published the photo below as well as lots of drawings.

Apartment in Barcelona

Sonni, one of the students for this subject last year, has made me aware of the video below.

You may also want to have a look at the earlier post regarding Gary Cheng's apartment in HK

Johnston Marklee - Sale House

Thought I should draw your attention to this project by Johnston Marklee as Lars Holt, a friend of mine, worked on this project. Lars was part of the Danish contingent here last year from the Aarhus School of Architecture.

Info on the Sale House at Archdaily (source of the image below).

Do try to get to the lecture Monday evening. Please note this has moved to 7pm, Monday 23rd May 2011, Level 3 Room 322, Faculty of DAB