Posts by Benjamin Garfitt

20 Mar 2009

17 Green Roofs

Green Roof near Gol, Norway
Here’s a link to EcoSalon’s list of 17 green roofs from around the world.

Interesting to flick through for 5 minutes and don’t worry, there’s some more modern stuff than the house shown above in there too.

5 Mar 2009

Object Selection

Here’s a tip to help with selecting objects, I’ve found it’s very useful when using the stretch command.
Enter a command e.g. stretch, when the select objects prompt appears enter cp for crossing polygon. You can then draw a polygon around the nodes that need stretching and complete the command.

For more info and an explaination of the other selection options such as window polygon follow the link:
CAD Tutor Object Selection Tutorial
You will need to scroll down, as I’m sure everyone’s mastered window selection!

Crossing Polygon Selection

16 Feb 2009

Le Corbusier and Palladio Exhibitions in The Sunday Times

I came across this article by Hugh Pearman in The Sunday Times.
It has some information on the exhibitions and reveals that both architects had more in common than you might think at first glance.

Le Corbusiers La Tourette

Le Corbusier's La Tourette

Hugh Pearman’s website has a collection of writing on architecture.

24 Oct 2008

N55’s Walking House


Here’s a bit of a bizarre project, but worth a look - it’s like an Archigram design brought to life! The house is designed to cater for a self sufficient nomadic lifestyle.

It’d be an impressive sight travelling down the high street, but I don’t think you’d be too popular once the novelty had worn off and traffic ground to walking speed!

More info here at N55’s site
and video here via Neatorama

23 Oct 2008

Parking in Perspective


This has been around for a while, but in case anyone hasn’t seen it yet it’s a good use of colour and perspective to liven up and aid navigation in an otherwise dull car park.

Link: Axel Peemoeller - Eureka Car Park, Melbourne

16 Sep 2008

Sheaf Square Sheffield

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I visited Sheffield last week and got the chance to visit the Winter Gardens and railway station. The newly renovated public spaces in Sheffield were some of the best I’ve seen and the work has been successfully carried on into the city towards Sheffield Hallam University and the Winter Gardens.

20 Mar 2008

More Eggs

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Here’s the rest of the entries.

20 Mar 2008

Easter Egg-stravaganza!

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We had plenty of entries at the Stokesley Office and everyone pushed the limits of their artistic talents, but there could be only one winner of the giant chocolate Easter bunny. . .

 

. . . and the winner is Eamon with his eggcellent Homer Egg, apparently he’s eggstatic!

Congratulations, don’t eat it all at once!

6 Feb 2008

Abandoned Housing, Taiwan

Desolation Row Redux

My first post! I just rediscovered this old set of photos taken by CantikFotos of a derelict development in Taiwan. Unfortunately there’s not much explanation to go with the pictures, perhaps it’s just the abandoned set of a Taiwanese sci-fi film! In other photographs each of the saucers are brightly coloured, but these black and white photos are the most surreal.

Here’s the link to the full set on flickr