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Exhibiton preparations
Posted 20 May 2016 23:18
Posted 20 May 2016 23:03
Come and join us tonight for the launch night of:
'BUILDING THE UNBUILT'
An exhibition celebrating the architectural significance of the Lee House. Refreshments on arrival.
Opening night Thursday 19th May from 6pm
at the Lee House:
90 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester'
Posted 19 May 2016 12:16
This Italian lift, Ascensore Castello d’Albertis-Montegalletto built in 1929 in Genoa, transports passengers horizontally for 300m and then goes vertically to the palace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=148&v=A739p5HkRZ8
Posted 19 May 2016 09:28
The White Nancy remodelled and burnt, as part of a processional celebration - inspired by David Best, Temple.
Posted 15 May 2016 22:27
Bollington - Real:Imagined
We are pleased to invite you to the exhibition opening night on Saturday 21st May from 7pm at Bollington Arts Centre.
Members of the Neighbourhood Plan Committee, Students and Staff from Manchester School of Architecture will be present to discuss drawings, models and interventions with drinks and food.

The exhibition is then open for the following five days and we would love to see you there.
Posted 10 May 2016 08:04
Yayoi Kusama's mirrored orbs installation at the arched lake pavilion at Philip Johnson's Glass House.
Posted 5 May 2016 21:41
Making collages... (Rob Gonsalves Inspiration)
Posted 4 May 2016 23:48
late architecture nights..

"Light of the Late Night" Rob Gonsalves
Posted 4 May 2016 23:46
CiA fieldworking @HargreavesFoundry
Posted 21 Apr 2016 15:35
Rossi's Gallaratese II Housing.
Posted 21 Apr 2016 14:18
Terragni's Casa del Fascio and Como Cathedral.
Posted 21 Apr 2016 14:17
herzog and de meuron on the value of the visual @ shape to fabrication
Posted 19 Apr 2016 17:05
Lecture from Ellen Van Loon of OMA.
Posted 18 Apr 2016 21:36
"Casting stone"
Cast iron staircase, seemingly carved into the rock of the Bollington wharf.
Posted 16 Apr 2016 17:47
Cast Iron Columns in Clarence Mill
Posted 15 Apr 2016 11:08
Cut Axonometric Drawing of Carlo Scarpa's Venezuela Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Posted 8 Apr 2016 17:40
Wormeye Axonometric Drawing
Posted 8 Apr 2016 17:39
Casting: Morning light study
Posted 4 Apr 2016 21:20
Materiality Study
Posted 3 Apr 2016 01:03
Market Hall Restoration, NQ
Posted 2 Apr 2016 13:21
hoUSe, New Islington
Posted 1 Apr 2016 17:09
Case study visit - hoUSe, New Islington
Posted 1 Apr 2016 17:08
Chimney Pot Park
Posted 1 Apr 2016 17:08
Case study visit - Chimney Pot Park, Salford
Posted 1 Apr 2016 17:07
Initial cast facade experiment
Posted 30 Mar 2016 12:55
Objects cast by Hargreaves
Posted 30 Mar 2016 12:52
Posted 30 Mar 2016 12:36
Sketching ideas for final image
Posted 30 Mar 2016 11:56
Inside Hargreaves Foundry
Posted 30 Mar 2016 10:56
Quick precedent study detour from meeting with Events collaborator @ Brockholes
Posted 29 Mar 2016 16:21
Posted 23 Mar 2016 13:20
Posted 23 Mar 2016 13:19
Hargreaves Foundry
Posted 23 Mar 2016 13:17
Massing Studies - Bollington Recreation Ground
Posted 21 Mar 2016 13:51
Concept Sketch - Archway as Threshold to the Recreation Ground
Posted 21 Mar 2016 11:41
Concept Sketch - Arch Light Study
Posted 21 Mar 2016 11:40
Concept Sketch - Looking at the Café
Posted 21 Mar 2016 11:39
Concept Sketch - View from the Gym
Posted 21 Mar 2016 11:37
A beautiful display - Halifax 17/03/16
Posted 21 Mar 2016 11:23
Liquid Metal - Halifax 17/03/16
Posted 21 Mar 2016 11:09
CiA visits the Hargreaves Foundry - Halifax 17/03/16
Posted 21 Mar 2016 11:07
CAD procrastination rock sculpture
Posted 17 Mar 2016 22:07
Structural Walls in Venice
Posted 17 Mar 2016 16:29
Massing development along Bollington Canal
Posted 16 Mar 2016 22:21
Sketching Ingersley Vale's south elevation
Posted 16 Mar 2016 16:49
Yesterday's trip to White Nancy
Posted 14 Mar 2016 21:59
Masters of materiality
Posted 12 Mar 2016 21:06
Facade design to Lighting design
Posted 12 Mar 2016 21:04
Visit to Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery - Caruso St John
Posted 12 Mar 2016 21:01
Started from the bottom, a journey to the Middle wood way.
Posted 10 Mar 2016 18:11
Grande Cretti di Gibellina, Sicily, a town cast in concrete after it's destruction during an earthquake
Posted 10 Mar 2016 09:03
Swimming Pools (drank)
Posted 9 Mar 2016 17:05
Great and inspiring afternoon @Time&ContextSymposium !
Posted 8 Mar 2016 18:40
Journey
Posted 7 Mar 2016 23:05
Ingersley Vale Rambler's Retreat: Mapping complex programme relationships
Posted 7 Mar 2016 18:38
Tuesday 8th March 2pm - "Time and Context" symposium
Consisting of talks from award winning practitioners and academic.
All welcome, so please come along for an afternoon of inspiring talks and discussion.
Posted 5 Mar 2016 11:58
Worm-eye Axonometric by another IUAV student
Posted 4 Mar 2016 08:12
Material/site studies, carving into the heart of the site. (model by art historian Matthew Simmonds)
Posted 2 Mar 2016 10:17
Walsall Art Gallery Visit- tower vs domestic
"The gallery should be a contemporary equivalent of the church, a marker, a fix for the town's identity" [Caruso St John. 2002]
Posted 1 Mar 2016 19:32
Genius Loci, an exploration of the the spirit of Bollington through collage, inspired by the work of visual artist Anastasia Savinova.
Posted 28 Feb 2016 14:53
Masterplan sketching
Posted 27 Feb 2016 11:19
Massing studies
Posted 25 Feb 2016 22:41
Continuing the courtyard within to create ambiguity between inside and outside.
Posted 24 Feb 2016 08:36
Defining the central courtyard with enclosing blocks
Posted 24 Feb 2016 08:25
Tower as a landmark, a termination to the street
Posted 24 Feb 2016 08:24
Extending the street into a public courtyard
Posted 24 Feb 2016 08:16
Materiality concept model
Posted 23 Feb 2016 17:21
Scarpa again
Posted 20 Feb 2016 23:15
Scarpa detail
Posted 20 Feb 2016 23:13
Scarpa detail
Posted 20 Feb 2016 23:12
Site Model
Posted 19 Feb 2016 19:36
Scarpa sketching
Posted 17 Feb 2016 13:36
Universitario di Architettura
Posted 16 Feb 2016 19:28
Control enmeshed with disorder
Posted 15 Feb 2016 21:07
Control enmeshed with disorder
Posted 15 Feb 2016 21:06
"Long-term parking" - a sculpture by French-born American Nouveau Realist artist Arman. It reminds me of parking issues in Bollington, definitely a concrete solution...
Posted 14 Feb 2016 21:18
busy workshop
Posted 11 Feb 2016 17:15
Final layout of workshop portfolio - Week 3 of 3
Posted 11 Feb 2016 14:20
Material Application model
John Rylands Library
1:1 Cast railing section
(Steve Kirk, Will Priest, Robbie Stanton)
Posted 9 Feb 2016 14:52