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

Alright alright stop yer clamouring- here it is! 😀

Blimey Charlie sooo demanding some folk…

Right. This week’s instalment in our materials mini-series is Wood. Perhaps not the best material for building with, certainly not for longevity, but versatile, abundant and easy to build with.

As always, pics and info please. I’ll allow wooden structures within buildings made from other materials, as there’s some fabulous timber inside many buildings. In fact almost all buildings will involve the use of wood in some way, even if it’s hidden away. But examples of visible woodwork please.

Traditional ‘stave’ church in Norway:

Vinger Church, Kongsvinger Norway:

Olympic Velodrome, in a little village somewhere inside the M25…

😉

The Ewok Village…

The Savill Building

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

Welsh Assembly building in, erm, Walescestershire:

Woof. Amazing.

Barajas, contains wood.

glulam:

brilliant stuff.

The winter garden in Sheffield

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.

One for the 5yr olds

Ah, wood! My favorite building material…

How about this?

Or maybe something more natural…

Are we allowed this kinda thing?

No Ikea though yeah..

Again, form and function.

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

WRONG!

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

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;

Again in Norway – Bergen

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.

This one’s more local to my childhood – the Feathers in Ludlow

Wooohoooooooo. Thread of the week. Every week 😀

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

Not a full building, but definitely wood, and pretty old:

The hammerbeam roof of Westminister Hall.

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

Crown Bar, Belfast

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:

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??)

Kracow (uoop North)

Poland.

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

Sultan Hussains Mosque in Cairo

Off of Grand Designs on the tele.

In Norway

Oooh.. and a video about it too

Whats that place bikebouy? I’m liking that

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

Moving into the land of sculpture if I may..

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.

Recent David Nash at YSP.. Utterlly brill.

Little Moreton Hall

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

Tiny summer house in Norway:

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…

The camping pods at long mynd have a certain charm

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 entitled to it.

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