Pictured above is Danny Wicke, an instructorfrom Rural Studio, whohas come over to the UK this week from Alabama to install the Woodshed's light vine. This photograph is...
Thanks to Peter Kelleher in the V&A Photo Studio, here is some fantastic construction time-lapse photography for two of the structures in the '1:1' exhibition - Helen...
The Helen & Hard 'Ratatosk' climbing structure is nearing completion in the V&A John Madejski Garden. Another gorgeous sunny day in South Kensington...the two...
The Beetle's House construction team have spent most of today applying some final touches to the teahouse. Much of this latter stage of construction has focussed on the...
The protective layers of adhesive sheeting have finally been removed from Sou Fujimoto's 'Inside/Outside Tree', revealing the transparent acrylic beneath. Having been...
The construction team from MDM Props have set themselves up in the Porter Gallery, and have started to assemble Vazio S/A's 'Spiral Booths' - a structure consisting of...
Resembling a group of patients being rushed into an operating theatre on hospital trolleys, the ten Norwegian ash trees for Helen & Hard's 'Ratatosk' climbing...
I was working quite late in the office tonight, and as I was leaving I decided to pass by Rintala Eggertsson's 'Ark' book tower, as I knew that they were working late...
Today was quite an exciting day for the '1:1' project...we finally raised the Beetle's House into position, and added its mighty chestnut tree legs. It was quite a...
Huge amounts of progress with Rural Studio's 'Woodhsed' in the Porter Gallery. The structure consists of 49 frames, or bents - all concatenated together into an...
The Rintala Eggertsson team have started to add shelves to the 'Ark' reading tower... Soon, every facade of the tower will consist of hundreds of these shelves.The...
This week we began construction of Terunobu Fujimori's 'Beetle's House' in the daylit space of the V&A Medieval & Renaissance Galleries... The images above...
http://www.vimeo.com/12375001 Today I had another tour of the 'Inbetween Architecture' structure with Studio Mumbai's Bijoy Jain. A large number of the plaster panels...
We don’t start on-site construction for Vazio S/A’s ‘Spiral Booths’ structure until the week after next, but I just wanted to share with you some...
The team responsible for building Rintala Eggertsson's 'Ark' reading tower have arrived at the V&A. Led by Dagur Eggertsson (one of the partners in the practice,...
The project being built in the V&A Cast Courts by Studio Mumbai (in collaboration with Michael Anastassiades and Kate Dineen) - 'Inbetween Architecture' - has come on...
This photograph captures the moment the very first acrylic sheet was lifted into position to begin construction on Sou Fujimoto's Inside/Outside Tree. The MDM Props team (the...
Today, Green Oak Carpentry Co., the team responsible for building the Rural Studio 'Woodshed', arrived at the V&A - and they have already made an amazing amount of...
Studio Mumbai's construction team arrived at the V&A this week, and have begun building their 'Inbetween Architecture' project in the V&A Cast Courts. The...
Some updates from this week's construction progress for Sou Fujimoto's Inside/Outside Tree. Our building contractor, MDM Props, have built a wooden rig which is being used...
I've spent a few days this week at the South London workshops of MDM Props, watching Terunobu Fujimori's 'Beetle's House' being constructed. We've had a...
So finally...after months of looking at design sketches, maquettes and 3D modelling scans...we at last get a glimpse of the final version of Helen & Hard's...
This weekwe begin construction in London! There are a number of approaches that we are taking with building the seven structures. In some cases, the buildings are being...
Very exciting...Studio Mumbai have just finished off-site construction on their 'Inbetween Architecture' project for the V&A Cast Courts. Here are some photographs of...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ou_9DI4XbQ Carlos Teixeira from Vazio S/A Architects has arrived in London with a brand-new model for his 'Spiral Booths' structure...
I've finally got hold of some of those amazing images that the Helen & Hard team showed me in the presentation at their studio in Stavanger last week. Shown here, above...
Last night I travelled from Stavanger to Oslo to meet Sami Rintala and Dagur Eggertsson, the partners of Rintala Eggertsson Architects - and the designers responsible for the...
Tonight I am in Stavanger, southern Norway - to visit Helen & Hard Architects. I've just spent an amazing day with the Helen & Hard team, not only getting an update on...
The engineering team at University of Bath have just sent us some photographs of their latest stress load tests on this new piece of carpentry technology that they're...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voFmvFe4td4 We've just received a shipment of new micro videos from two of the architects in the '1:1' exhibition, Terunobu Fujimori and...