Lisnaholic

^ Thanks for this example of how colour can be used: what an impact that red door has! Also, what a way to utilise what was, I presume, just a regular roof, as per the adjacent buildings.

^ Yes, this place looks nice at a glance, and in fact there are now several tv progs that look at Tiny Houses, always very chic, but very small.
Having lived in a bedsit for several years, I can report, as plankton suggests, that there's no real substitute for having actual space, although the deck in your picture might help relieve a sense of claustrophobia (weather permitting).
Tiny House living must come with a whole bunch of constraints which don't appeal to me: you have to give away your books after you've read them, there's only room for one type of cereal in your kitchen, and you put your back out every time you change the bedsheets because you can't actually walk round the bed.
But as a frequently lazy person, the saddest thing to see are the home-owners proudly lifting up and folding down various bits of furniture, "And this turns into a table with space underneath to store your winter sweaters,"etc. Somehow I know I'd just never bother; tiny house living might suit someone who is never off-duty from being excruciatingly tidy, but wouldn't suit someone like me with a tendency to slobbism and hoarding.

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Lisnaholic

It's true that it could be nice Mindfulness, and the whole Tiny House concept appears to be becoming popular;on a relatively low budget you get a sense of home ownership, independence and individuality, and most Tiny Houses are put in attractive, low-density areas, so you have immediate access to some quiet, rural space too.
Also, I realise that some of my complaints are disappearing in the computer age: whole collections of books and albums can be reduced to one usb memory stick, for example.

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Plankton

Naw. I only have a few of those.

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Lisnaholic

^ And how many of these do you have, Plankton?
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In its day, the Pompidou Centre was famous for its use of colour, also for the fact that it was built "inside-out"; all the structural steelwork, the service pipes and ductwork were exposed on the outside of the building and colour-coded according to function. The idea was to achieve a huge uncluttered space inside the building for exhibitions, etc.

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Location: Paris. Architect: Brit.

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Did you just concede that your disk toys are in fact frisbees or are you a blasphemer that owns disks and frisbees? Either way, mwahaha.

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Plankton

Maybe once per every ten years or so, where I get to dress up in my gown.

Yoiks. It almost looks like scaffolding on a perpetually unfinished oil refinery. *shrug* I wonder how many hundreds of revisions there were to those drawings. lol

I have 3 frisbee's and hundreds of discs. I'm not sure what your definition of blasphemy is, but ok. We use the frisbee's to warm up sometimes. There's quite a few players that have a freestyle or ultimate background and it's a fun way to get the body moving and watch these guys show their stuff too.

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Lisnaholic

That's an unusual and very attractive arch, Mindfulness. Lots of arches are in buildings, of course, where they do an important structural job, but free-standing arches like yours are mainly decorative, so there is a lot of pressure to look nice. Here are a couple of others, though not rustic like yours:-

< Somme War Mermorial, France



That's a good comparison; it never occured to me, but now I can't un-see it.

Yes a bunch of revisions, I'm sure. Back in my day, revisions were always recorded in a column above the title block, like this:-



Also, they are invariably by letter. I once worked on a project that had been running for years, and had to change a drawing that was already at revision "R", so my changes were revision "S" - and that was the furthest up the alphabet that I ever saw !

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Lisnaholic

Of course some architects become total arch fetishists. This guy decorated his building with interlinked blind arches: not only do they lead nowhere, but they are copulating in full view of everybody. Hot, if you are sexually aroused by stonework:

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Plankton

I've seen double alphanumeric revisions into the hundreds on some of the stuff at ComEd dating back to the 1950's. Entire pages dedicated to revision history type of thing and all on vellum. It's like looking into the fabric of time. lol

I did develop an automated revision update program using LISP and attributed titleblocks for ComEd back in 2002 though. It's a bit outdated but can still be ported to use on other platforms for various needs like I use here at my work currently. I did quite a bit of programming for automated drafting standards back then but we had 30-40 drafters plugging away at substation reworks and needed to keep everyone on the same page. I even set up an in-house intranet for new tools and instructions on how to use them. I was developing a Drawing Tracker software package and rev history as well as user login, plotting/paper use, and time spent on each drawing were tracked and logged.

It's been a while, but I still dig into that stuff every now and then. If I have time that is. Lots of other stuff to do these days, but if I can automate a task, I'll pound out some code.

Ain't technology grand? lol

Oh yeah... architecture:

This one always intrigued me with it's angles and split. It was also featured in a couple of movies and video games including one of my favorites, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2:



Crain Communications Building - The Skyscraper Center

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Lisnaholic

Yes, that's a good piece of design; it doesn't look that complicated, but still leaves you wondering about the geometry of it.

Well, that's very impressive, Plankton! I'm not entirely sorry that I exited the profession just as CAD was coming in. About the only pre-CAD innovation I saw first hand was a program where you could put up a plan on the computer screen and click with a cursor at each of the corner points. You closed the shape by going back to your starting point and the computer would tell you what the enclosed area was. That was a big deal because in London, perhaps more so than elsewhere, office developments were all about Net Lettable Area. (= what floorspace you have left after deducting stairwells, toilets etc.)
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I'm not usually a fan of the bigname celeb architects, but Bjarke Ingels has some good designs in his portfolio, including the Lego HQ building that was mentioned here months back. These designs look attractive but are hugely impractical: The first, I'm guessing has beeen built, but the other is surely just a fantasy project:-

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