Eero Saarinen is one of those strangely overlooked Architects for me perhaps something to do with his architecture being full of a kind of idealistic futurism that seemed to go out of fashion fast but Metropolis Magazine has some articles on him. Reconsidering Eero an interview with Jayne Merkel who wrote Eero Saarinen & Saarinen [...]
I went to see Habitare 05 last weekend, which is Finland’s largest interior and Furniture trade show and takes place every two years and it coincided with Helsinki design week. We went to get a flavour of what is happening here and to look for some inspiration. I have put some photos on flickr as [...]
I spent almost three years of my professional life helping to design and get built this building and I missed the opening! An article about it here! & on flickr here !
This is now Europe’s tallest wooden office building (5 stories) by finnforest & Helin & Co. It is a building that basically showcases finnforests latest products basically a brochure in built form, which unfortuneately is all it seems to be. The interesting thing about this building is the structure, columns, beams even floor panels, as [...]
OK now I have lewism.org up and running & have moved over my old posts from my original site! I have a design of sorts which has plenty of things I want to alter but is OK for now & it will be tweaked small amounts over time I think. The reason I came over [...]
I spent most of yesterday at work in a quiet frenzy at work because of the Cricket. I was so tense I could hardly concentrate on anything else but the Radio coverage on the internet all passed by obliviously by my Finnish work colleagues. Such are these times you truely feel like a fish out [...]
Phew we have two cats!
Most of the great men in history have loved cats : Churchill, Newton (inventor of the cat-flap), Dickens, Abe Lincoln, P,G.Wodehouse. By contrast, many of the villains have hated cats , or preferred dogs: Hitler, Napoleon, Mussolini, Stalin.
(stumbling & mumbling)
abandoned is a great photography website of abandoned buildings, full of poigniant photos.
The Block lamp by Harri Koskinen is part of the permanent collection at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Koskinen has done some great designs for Issey Miyake and Iitala also. But the block lamp is my favourite.
Mo01 the latest in town planning and design, but maybe not surprisingly as this article shows its not a complete sucess but I’ve added Malmo to the list of places I want to visit as Calatrava is there to with a beautiful looking apartment tower with a twist!
Archinect has a great resource for this here also bottom drawer blogs pretty well about it from an architects perspective in the usa. Events in seeming slow motion have ratcheted up about this, and it feels hard not to write about this and yet to say anything constructive yet. Flickrs Katrina tag shows so many [...]
