???…possible exhibition… one of many to come…

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seven storey timber frame building berlin…

Kaden & Klingbeil with the following website: www.kaden-klingbeil.de/ the building looks very unimpressive in the three dimensional renderings but much nicer in reality despite having truely over compensated on spatial quality for the claim to a timber frame structure…

The “building site” [it seems wrong to call it this as preconceptual notions are sure to taint [...]

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sound isolating earphones…

do these require instruction? and if so do the instructions show images, drawings and diagrams to enhance the use of the device or just some sadistic images of removed ears, why do you have to assign one to the right ear and one to the left?? do you always check that you have the corresponding [...]

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sketch book cover…

The images above and below should enable with the technical drawing the ability to make with relative ease the sketch book that I have adopted to use for my time in studiosixid…

if in need of additional help feel free to contact by posting a comment…as what appears to be legible instructions maybe quite the opposite…try [...]

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we do not create space; we alter existing space…

…detroit collaborative design centre

Dan Pitera is director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, attached to the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. The Design Center is a not-for-profit organization whose brief is to enable other similar structures to have access to proper architect’s services.
Dan Pitera is also a member of the board for the [...]

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useless work…workmanship

All the things which can give ordinary life a turn for the better are useless: affection, laughter, flowers, song, seas, mountains, play, poetry, art and all, but they are not valueless and not ineffectual either.
Design to many who practice it, must mean, simply and solely useless work. Nothing they do is concerned with the requirements [...]

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more explanatory diagrams from chiltons book…

for the above image I resisted the urge to clean it up in Photoshop, to limit and restrict its colour to black and white and shades of grey, however below I have done this and it although like the tendency of alot of architecture using banal representation to avoid causing conflict through leaving the colour [...]

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eager to read…to learn… to understand…no time to wash…

“Did you know that a lot of automotive maintenance services don’t require the services of a skilled mechanic? Did you ever wish that someone would show you how to do these things so that you could save a buck? This book will do it.
Did you ever notice how much labor charges add to the total [...]

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choc…o…late

I will revisit this item at a later stage but what does this packaging say to you, its aim had a clear intent to begin with, [previously encompassing a very nice bar of chocolate with small fragments of "mint" flavoring crunchy pieces...]
If you feel like it write a comment about what it says to you [...]

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faulty tower…

not Fawlty Towers, the classic British sitcom from the 1970s set in a slightly crazy hotel, representing the pinnacle of the golden era of television comedy, instead rather its the tower that since the 1970’s has stood aloft the city providing vantage points to the changing and ever moving city beneath…
the slightly crazy university building [...]

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