Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. - Frank Gehry

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Focus Week - Commencing 25 January 2010

Design Museum

During this week of focus week I visited the Design Museum. The Design Museum is by the River Thames close to Tower Bridge. The museum displays products - from graphics to fashion, and more importantly architecture. It claims to be the first museum of modern design.

There were models and prototypes made by big architects, namely Zaha Hadid.
Models of new buildings based in Dubai, Singapore and China were on display.

The details involved in these models were very fascinating, it urged me to pay more attention to my detail when model making for my Studio module.

Dubai being a leading country in investments, created the Opus Office Tower - with the help of Zaha Hadid. Costing over 235 Million pounds, investors are still in waiting before the tower is completed.



Furthermore........
As a part of our Studio work, we were given a task to look into details of landscapes. James and myself decided to work together and look at Jubilee Park in Canary Wharf, a site we have visited and are very familiar with.
We examined and analysed details of the water features.


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