London
13th July - 19th July
Centre Pompidou
Richard Rodgers & Renzo Piano
19-7-19
Spanning Floor Trusses Study
Urban Sketchers Syposium: Amsterdam
25-7-19
When a friendly hello from another guest at my hostel led to the discovery an Urban Sketching Symposium within the city! These sketches were produced whilst touring the town with my new friend Jacob and a legion of other passionate sketches. With quick pace and performed standing in these sketches I tried to capture the ‘essence’ of each scene.
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Find ‘jam_397’ on Instagram to witness the early works of the future master ‘Jacob of the Bauhaus’
Beurs Van Berlage
Hendrik Petrus Berlage.
27-7-19
Capping the Damrak at the centre of city commands the peculiar ‘Beurs van Berlage’ of Hendrik Petrus Berlage. A stock exchange which the architect subvertly designed as a ‘community house’ expecting the economies demise as a strict socialist.
Gazing at its principle façade from across the river, its asymmetry, syncopated fenestration and collection of square, pointed and octagonal towers make the building particularly difficult to assign to singular style. The architect drawing inspiration from the many competing movements of his city in a very early example of eclecticism.
Conservatorium van Amsterdam
27-7-19
The incredible irredescant facade of the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam. Spotted whilst viewing its neighbouring OBA Library
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The Nemo Science Museum
Renzo Piano
27-7-19
Vincent Van Gogh Museum
Gerrit Rietveld & Kisho Kurokawa
27-7-19
Left, the Rietveld Building of Gerrit Rietveld, principle member of the Dutch De Stilg and prominent member of the Bauhaus. Right, the Kurokawa Wing of Kisho Kurokawa, a leading Japanese architect and founding member of the Metabolist movement.
Concrete to metal, symmetry to asymmetry, industrial to environmental. Despite such binary oppositions these two buildings harmonize in unexpected but delightful unity as if channelling the complexities of its celebrated artist.
EYE - New Dutch film Institute
Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
29-7-19
Left, the Rietveld Building of Gerrit Rietveld, principle member of the Dutch De Stilg and prominent member of the Bauhaus. Right, the Kurokawa Wing of Kisho Kurokawa, a leading Japanese architect and founding member of the Metabolist movement.
Concrete to metal, symmetry to asymmetry, industrial to environmental. Despite such binary oppositions these two buildings harmonize in unexpected but delightful unity as if channelling the complexities of its celebrated artist.
Canal Homes
28-7-19
The celebrated canal homes seemed to lack a common floor datum which attributed to their quirky aesthetic cementing their popularity today. I found the decorative gables of particular interest which seemed to conform to an established collection of designs.
'Anchor Plates'
So long confused of that these ornamental features were, a chance conversation with a friendly resident revealed them to be anchor plates - improving the buildings structural rigidity on its water logged foundations
