[Closed] It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread! This week- Wood.

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The Ewok Village...

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The Savill Building

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Kondo Hall - dating from 670 - don't know how old you want your wooden buildings to be:

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Welsh Assembly building in, erm, Walescestershire:

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Woof. Amazing.

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Barajas, contains wood.
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glulam:
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brilliant stuff.

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The winter garden in Sheffield

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No idea where this is, hahaha but I like the form and the flow of the roof line.

Excellent stuff Sir, thank you, sorry to go on.
Difficult one this week.. lots of head scratching going on here..so I'm starting simple.

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One for the 5yr olds

Ah, wood! My favorite building material...

How about this?

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Or maybe something more natural...
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Are we allowed this kinda thing?

No Ikea though yeah..

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Again, form and function.

Perhaps not the best material for building with, certainly not for longevity

I do plenty of work with the restoration of 400 year old barns like this:

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if we're allowed chairs how about sheds?

My Beach Hut at Hove - not terribly worthy in an architectural sense but it's a nice place to be and appropriate for it's environment;

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Again in Norway - Bergen

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Staying with Scandinavia for a minute - Porvoo, in Finland. One of very few old towns left in Finland; they were all made of wood and the Nazis burned almost every town and village literally to the ground as they retreated.

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This one's more local to my childhood - the Feathers in Ludlow

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Wooohoooooooo. Thread of the week. Every week 😀

One of the most under-appreciated buildings ever. Manchester Oxford Road station. Designed by Henry Moore.

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Not a full building, but definitely wood, and pretty old:
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The hammerbeam roof of Westminister Hall.

I'm going to post a picture of a pub because I have a hangover:

Crown Bar, Belfast
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not structurally wood but very pretty.

Are we allowed this kinda thing?

No not really, that's furniture, not architecture!

You naughty bikebouy...

Mosque roof, Citadel in Amman, Jordan:

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Cathedral of the Saviour, Beijing:

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Argh you git I love Churches and can't find any Wood/Timber framed pic's anywhere!!
Except these.hahaha (sorry about the furniture, though really it is acrhitectural on some level no??)

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Kracow (uoop North)

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Poland.

TheseEastern Europeans kinda like their wooden churches don't they..

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Sultan Hussains Mosque in Cairo

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Off of Grand Designs on the tele.

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In Norway

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Oooh.. and a video about it too

Whats that place bikebouy? I'm liking that

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Roofers eh..
I mean, all I asked for was a bit of laminate for the architrave..

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Moving into the land of sculpture if I may..

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Tithe Barn in Bradford on Avon.
Can't remember the ins and outs but it's massive, old and was used to store farm produce/livestock.

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Recent David Nash at YSP.. Utterlly brill.

Little Moreton Hall

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Half way through construction long galleries became all the rage... so thay added one. However, the supporting struction couldn't cope with the weight hence the "fun house" nature of the whole thing.

Here's a couple I took in Newfoundland.
Maybe not stunning architecture, but IMO very, very pretty:

This is what you call a beach hut! 🙂
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This one's not mine, but a lot of the houses in St Johns are like this
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Tiny summer house in Norway:

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I was lucky enough to stay in a traditional summer house when I visited Norway. The interior was similar to this; just so nice with a fire going in the evening, and no-one around for miles, just the bears, wolves and trolls...

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The camping pods at long mynd have a certain charm

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Best A+A thread so far.

Yeah but somebody sez that every week, Mol! 🙂

Wooohoooooooo. Thread of the week. Every week

I'm happy that people enjoy it so much. So much so that've even started demanding it every week if it's not up straight away! 😀 Like they are somehow [i]entitled[/i] to it.

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Another picture of the Platform at Oxford Road. Lurverly. I'm sure most of the people getting a train there don't notice the beautifully sculpted benches and stuff, all designed by one of this countries greatest artists. It should be restored to its former glory really

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Can we have museums and galleries next week? I have some lovely pics of der Neue Pinakothek in Munich from yesterday which is an absolutely lovely building.. took more pictures of the building than the artwork (which was also ace btw).

Sir, we ARE entitled to it.. haha

Nimis is a huge wooden structure built by an artist on the coast near to Angelholm, in Skane, Southern Sweden. Pics dont do it justice.

Edit. Oops 😳

Try again!

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The beach huts at Wells-next-the-Sea. One of the greatest games of adolescence was climbing onto the roof of a beach hut at one and then jumping roof to roof to the other end. Some jumps were too far so you had to jump down and climb up the other side.

This game was seldom played sober and most often in the dark. There were several minor injuries and I believe once there was a roof collapse. He was a big lad and had trouble climbing back out.

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Alnwick tree house:

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Similarly, Bewilderwood in Norfolk:

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I really love the burnt finish on this one (it's charred cedar). There's loads about it here:
http://www.dwell.com/slideshows/terunobu-fujimori-profile.html

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Iron Age house

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Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court (now the Supreme Court). I prefer the grimy forboding crim court to the current spruced up state. They've kept the wood though.

Sticks

Patrick Doughery's things made from sticks. The sticks aren't woven or wired together and they're not growing, they are just sort of flexed against each other, all in tension.

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And they remind me of this
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St George's Cathedral - Guyana
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The world's tallest wooden building, built by a mental Russian gangster

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Holborn's The Lamb

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Another shot of the Great Barn in Bradford-on-Avon. All these old tythe barns have fantastic timber roof structures. A bugger to photograph properly, tho'

Here's a sweet little timber church, St Mary & St Nicholas, Sandy Lane, Wiltshire:
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Interior:
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Sorry I am hopeless at putting up pictures, these are of the sports hall in Joensuu, enormous wooden thing. Breathtaking 😀

http://www.woodforgood.com/joensuu.html