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

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