Where The Wild Things Are | Percy Weston

October 10, 2012 by bg-martin

Where The Wild Things Are | Percy Weston Project Description: Where The Wild Things Are imagines a new safari park, wilderness and leisure strip as essential social infrastructure linking Deptford in South-East London to Canary Wharf in Docklands. The strip is a conduit through the metropolis – a filter through which you travel to see the realities of the city in a new light. It juxtaposes the sublime and the ridiculous, until nothing seems more absurd than the goings on around […]

Categories: Archilibs, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, Drafting, drawing, elevation, ink, mix-media, Percy Weston, perspective, Royal College of Art, section, siteplan, sketch

The Observation Station | Douglas Fenton

October 9, 2012 by bg-martin

The Architecture of Solitude: The Observation Station | Douglas Fenton

Categories: Archilibs, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, collage, Douglas Fenton, drawing, ink, mix-media

The Boxes | Chung Fanky Chak

October 9, 2012 by bg-martin

Part of ‘The Boxes’ | Chung Fanky Chak | New Mexico | 2007 Archival digital print.

Categories: Archilibs, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, Chung Fanky Chak, digital, drawing, elevation, mix-media

Speculating on Cultures at the Edge of Destruction | Mary Alejandra Alvarez

October 9, 2012 by bg-martin

Chicago Expo High rise: Speculating on Cultures at the Edge of Destruction | Mary Alejandra Alvarez | 2012

Categories: Archilibs, Digital, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, design, digital, drawing, Mary Alejandra Alvarez

sketching \ Helmut Jahn

October 9, 2012 by bg-martin

Helmut Jahn drawings | 1991 Given the sleek high-tech look of his buildings, few would associate Jahn with the timeless act of scribbling. He is, however, an obsessive draughtsman for whom drawing is an indispensable activity. Jahn’s drawing is fueled through building and his is a practical imagination, one that preys on a particular project’s constraints. His flights of fancy are rarely an end in themselves but are almost always related to solving problems.     …

Categories: drawings, Sketches • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, drawing, Helmut Jahn, ink, scribble, sketch

New Welfare Island Project | Rem Koolhaas and Zoe Zenghelis

October 8, 2012 by bg-martin

New Welfare Island Project | Rem Koolhaas and Zoe Zenghelis | Roosevelt Island, New York | 1975-76 Gouache on paper “Koolhaas, German Martinez, and Richard Perlmutter designed the theoretical New Welfare Island Project for just the southern half of Roosevelt Island (once called Welfare Island). At the top of the aerial view, the Queensboro Bridge passes through a convention center, a monumental gateway to Manhattan. Farther south, a tecton—a Suprematist device from the work of Kasimir Malevich—hovers over a streamlined Art […]

Categories: Archilibs, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, design, diagram, drawing, masterplan, mix-media, OMA, perspective, Rem Koolhaas, Zoe Zenghelis

City in a Building | Stuart Franks

October 8, 2012 by bg-martin

City in a Building (and other drawings) | Stuart Franks | 2012 Hand-drawn section     …

Categories: Drafting, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, design, Drafting, drawing, graphite, hand drawn, pencil, Royal College of Art, section, Stuart Franks

The Lover’s Tree House | Ifigeneia Liangi

October 8, 2012 by bg-martin

The Lover’s Tree House by Ifigeneia Liangi | 2012 The apartments of the area of the area of Kipseli are particularly small and private space is limited. It is common for big families to use the living room as an extra bedroom, which causes difficulty in having sex. The lover’s tree house is a response to limited private space. It is designed so that people would have to hold hands in order to climb on it.     …

Categories: Archilibs, Digital, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, design, digital, drawing, drawings, Ifigeneia Liangi, mix-media, perspective, The Bartlett, utopia

Concept | Ian Lambert

October 7, 2012 by bg-martin

Ian Lambert | 2012 Through the development of analysis the drawings illustrate the connection between todays presence and yesterday’s forgotten elements. Hand drawings are from movement through site which consist of warped signs, exposed manhole covers and cut off I-beams etc.

Categories: Architectural Models, Galleries • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, art, design, Drafting, drawing, drawings, Ian Lambert, Lincoln University, mix-media, modelmaking, sketch