We specialise in the conversion of restaurant spaces, hotels and interior re-development, paying careful attention to the surrounding location and environment. Practice members contribute a range of diverse skills and work closely together as a team. Inspiration is drawn from the teams' combined passion and belief that eating out is an extension of home, and staying in hotels a part of life.
This is an architectural company that my group visited in central london, near goodge street.
The most intriguing thing about this company is, it is owned also by its employees they are all shareholders of the company, and they share everything. They all work together to make and design incredible buildings as possible. It started as a small company owned by 2-3 people and grew in a few years. The strategy on how they run and flexibility of the company seems to work for the people. The designs they do ranges from small budget designs to expensive luxurious works. And regardless of its size, area, context and scope they try thier best to come up with new and most dynamic and effecient design to meet with the clients needs and to create change and impact.
These are called 'capiz windows' these are made with wooden frames and sea shells. that are normally shaped in squares and placed as windows in old houses in manila.
These are examples of the traditional bahay na bato meaning house made of stone. But only the ground floor of these houses are made from stone and then the 1-2nd floor are made all from wood. This is influenced during the spanish occupation for 3 centuries.
This is examples of the interior of the bahay na bato houses. They are all made of wood, floors furnitures and scultures, and some are made with brick walls and combined with these wood panels and capiz windows.
San Agustin church This is the first church built on the island of the Philippines. Made by the spanish conquistadors during the time of thier occupation and still standing today.
It is situated in old manila, inside intramuros, which is a fortress during olden times. to protect them from invaders. This is the wall example that still stands today surrounding old manila. This is the gate to Fort Santiago.
These are some examples of old houses that survived during the spanish times.
Wells Cathedral in Somerset dates from the early 13th century and is spectacular in its uniqueness and richness of decoration.
The Early Gothic interior is dominated by "scissor arches," seen nowhere else.
The octagonal Chapter House features elaborate rib vaulting and is considered among the most beautiful in England.
The north transept houses a doorway leading to a graceful, well-worn stairway where the double-branching flight of stairs seems to undulate like a wave.
It is one of the most beautiful staircases in Europe.
2) De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, Sussex
The De La Warr Pavilion was conceived as a means of introducing modernist architecture to wider society.
Set in the seaside resort of Bexhill, it was one of the most talked about buildings in Britain when it was opened in December 1935, both for its striking appearance and for the modern construction methods which were used to build it.
It is the first major welded steel-frame building in Britain
The competition to design it was the first for a public building in which a specifically modern solution was suggested in the brief.
Chermayeff was virtually unknown, but Mendelsohn was considered one of Germany's finest architects.
The respected Architects' Journal was bombarded with letters attacking the design of these "aliens", and the leader in Fascist Week fulminated against the public employment of "foreign Jews".
The Pavilion was sited on a prime site overlooking the Channel. Inside the walls were white, the floors were polished cork or terrazzo, and the furniture was stainless steel or bent wood. A twenty-three feet high steel, helix-like staircase seems to float in the middle of the building. Originally, there was a restaurant and dance-floor, a reading room, and a sun terrace, whose flat roof was used for deck games.
By the 1980s, it had fallen into disrepair, but has since been renovated with the help of the Pavilion Trust.
3) The Western wall in Jerusalem
The 'Wailing Wall', as it is known, in Jerusalem, is one of the most important designed spaces in the world. Technically, it is 'merely' a wall, however its symbolic, architectural, historic, religious and psychological role is unprecedented. In what ways then, can a wall that is 485 metres long and largely hidden by the buildings adjoining it, achieve such importance?
The Wall above ground consists of 24 rows of stones, reaching a total height of 18 metres with 6 metres above the level of the Temple Mount. Excavations revealed that 19 more rows lay buried underground, the lowest being sunk into the natural rock. In 1968 the ground in front of the Wall was excavated to reveal two of the buried rows of stone, and the Wall then consisted of seven layers of huge, stones from the Second Temple above which are four layers of smaller, plainly dressed stones from the Roman or Byzantine periods. The dimensions of the lower stones vary - the average height is 1 metre and 3 metres lengths, but some are as long as 12 metres and weigh over 100 tons - and are believed to be part of Solomon's Temple.
A series of undergound tunnels runs under the Wall. They run through a system of vaulted areas and water cisterns. In one tunnel the largest stones of the Wall were found, including a giant stone about 60 metres long, 3 metres high and 4 metres wide, and weighing approximately 400 tons.
It is the most sacred spot in Jewish religious and national consciousness and tradition by virtue of its proximity to the Western Wall of the Holy of Holies in the Temple, from which, according to numerous sources, the Divine Presence never departed.
It is situated in one of the most sacred spots for three major religions-Judaism, Islam and Christianity, yet it chequered and controversial history makes it one of the most complex, and disputed spaces in the world.
The most intriguing thing about this company is, it is owned also by its employees they are all shareholders of the company, and they share everything. They all work together to make and design incredible buildings as possible. It started as a small company owned by 2-3 people and grew in a few years. The strategy on how they run and flexibility of the company seems to work for the people. The designs they do ranges from small budget designs to expensive luxurious works. And regardless of its size, area, context and scope they try thier best to come up with new and most dynamic and effecient design to meet with the clients needs and to create change and impact.
