Post-war

As a former resident of a GKC building (albeit for just under a week, aged 0), I was sad to learn this Civic Trust Award winning building had been demolished. Add to this that I spent four years living in an Edinburgh towerblock has led to an affection for post-war Scottish architecture. Nice to see ILike provide a link to Historic Scotland's PDF guide to the genre.

The image here is of Langlee Housing Estate, Galashiels by Wheeler and Sproson from 1967 - crisp primary forms with asymmetric facade compositions which could be mistaken for something more recent.

Emptiness

Architectural representations of a particularly spare kind in the work of Khedoori, quoted in butdoesitfloat. Like Rossi's work, there is latent the invitation to populate the space, as though people will begin to give purpose to their chilly emptiness.

Sketch

Sketching has always seemed to me as much about slowing down my thinking as representing an idea. The question posed by a new computer interface posted here is whether it helps us think slowly and creatively in the same way as a pencil and paper. The demonstration of 'ILoveSketch' is obviously designed to show off its NURBS capabilities, featuring an excessively curvy building. Impressive, as long as it can do square things just as well.

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Chairs

So many chairs, so little money. My favourite of many, the Lola, is featured in the beautiful joint detail shown here.

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