Change of Location.

Dear fans, sorry I havent posted for so long.
Now I live in Madrid.
For the first month I mostly made friends, got drunk, attepmted to learn spanish and did a lot of touristy things.

What a lovely place.
Its so cheap to travel around here, I have an 'abono' which is a ticket that means i can go anywhere in zone A for 30€ a month.
And me and Ben live in right in the centre of Madrid in a small, dark and dirty old flat but our housemates are great and so is the location, everything is within walking distance (not uni though).
And nobody has a garden so the parks are always full of people having a lie down and the streets are full of people having cervesas. My favorite Spanish tradition so far is botellon. This is where hundreds of young people hang around in plazas and parks and drink lots of booze. People even walk round selling you beers for a euro. That wouldnt happen in London.

Spire

nicked this din i

Ottoman/ Indian architecture is so beautiful and so are these pictures:
John Ruskin writes really nice things about architecture.

These were from http://butdoesitfloat.com/ and before that from the 1966 book Living architecture: Ottoman by Ulya Vogt-Göknil

These were also from http://butdoesitfloat.com/, but originally from the 1970 book Living Architecture: Islamic Indian by Andreas Volwahsen.

Aw

http://drawnassociation.net/

 

Nice snowflakes will be the base of my spire.

 

 

http://libarynth.org/inflatable_spaces
this is my dream

http://design-crisis.com/ really good blog

Playhouse by Dietrich Wegner

Monica Forster's Cloud

Blur pavillion by Diller Scofido and Renfro

Idea Proposals- too ambitious and time consuming to make for real at the moment.

I found a fan pumping out hot air in the courtyard behind Camberwell (marked with a red dot on the map).

This is my proposal for a giant inflatable that is lifted into the sky high above camberwell by the hot air.

 Blow-up Corridor

Designed around the measurements of the South London Gallery. 

Viewers crawl into the 1 metre high blow up structure and emerge in the 6ft dome or the 9ft spires.

In real life the edges wouldn't be so sharp and defined they would be all puffy and round.