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It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread! This week- Wood.
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Posted 12 years ago
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…
Posted 12 years ago😉
Posted 12 years agoThe Ewok Village…
Posted 12 years agoThe Savill Building
Kondo Hall – dating from 670 – don’t know how old you want your wooden buildings to be:
Posted 12 years agoWelsh Assembly building in, erm, Walescestershire:
Woof. Amazing.
Posted 12 years agoBarajas, contains wood.
Posted 12 years agoglulam:
brilliant stuff.
Posted 12 years agoThe winter garden in Sheffield
Posted 12 years agoNo 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.Posted 12 years agoOne for the 5yr olds
Posted 12 years agoAh, wood! My favorite building material…
How about this?
Or maybe something more natural…
Posted 12 years agoAre we allowed this kinda thing?
No Ikea though yeah..
Posted 12 years agoAgain, form and function.
Posted 12 years agoPerhaps 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:
Posted 12 years agoif 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;
Posted 12 years agoAgain 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
Posted 12 years agoWooohoooooooo. Thread of the week. Every week 😀
One of the most under-appreciated buildings ever. Manchester Oxford Road station. Designed by Henry Moore.
Posted 12 years agoNot a full building, but definitely wood, and pretty old:
The hammerbeam roof of Westminister Hall.
Posted 12 years agoI’m going to post a picture of a pub because I have a hangover:
Crown Bar, Belfast
not structurally wood but very pretty.
Posted 12 years agoAre 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:
Posted 12 years agoKracow (uoop North)
Posted 12 years agoPoland.
TheseEastern Europeans kinda like their wooden churches don’t they..
Posted 12 years agoSultan Hussains Mosque in Cairo
Posted 12 years agoOff of Grand Designs on the tele.
Posted 12 years agoIn Norway
Posted 12 years agoPosted 12 years agoRoofers eh..
I mean, all I asked for was a bit of laminate for the architrave..Posted 12 years agoMoving into the land of sculpture if I may..
Posted 12 years agoTithe 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.Posted 12 years agoRecent David Nash at YSP.. Utterlly brill.
Posted 12 years agoLittle 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.
Posted 12 years agoHere’s a couple I took in Newfoundland.
Maybe not stunning architecture, but IMO very, very pretty:This is what you call a beach hut! 🙂
IMG_6365 by PeterPoddy, on Flickr
Well, I wouldn’t park there, but….. by PeterPoddy, on FlickrThis one’s not mine, but a lot of the houses in St Johns are like this
Posted 12 years agoTiny 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…
Posted 12 years agoThe camping pods at long mynd have a certain charm
Posted 12 years agoYeah 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.
Posted 12 years agoAnother 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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