Seventeen Years

   

I cam across this image today. I have no idea where this is, if it’s built or if it is a rendering, but I immediately recalled Etienne Louis Boullée’s theoretical design for the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. A contemporary exploration of a historic precedent. I have always been drawn to the merging of philosophy and architecture and have taken great interest in figures like Boullée, Foucault and Ledoux. I particularly like investigating how their notions of society and architecture can be reinterpreted for contemporary society.

There is a very ‘Zaha Hadid’ sensibility in the above image. If anyone knows anything more about it please let me know.

Urban Photograph

I love the use of heavy shadowing on an architectural rendering. I continually go back to Ando’s plan for the Church of Light as inspiration of how representation and architecture become indistinguishable.

               

Ando Church of Light,  Crilo Eva (via Drawingarchitecture)

This is a drawing I did representing an existing House. Read about it here.

 

How Come You Never Go There

London 2012 Velodrome by Hopkins Architects

As the 2012 summer olympics draw near all eyes are on London and the extensive preparations for the games. Unfortunately in the last couple weeks horrendous street riots have overshadowed the unveiling of some of the permanent architectural fixtures of the games. Although I haven’t been following the projects very closely I was pleasantly surprised upon viewing images of the completed Velodrome. Given the past couple of olympic games there has been a tendency towards monumental, concrete or steel structures (Read: The Beijing Stadium by Herzog and De Meuron and The London Stadium by Zaha Hadid)