Working on my own house is really a opportunity to work with the building environment as the draughtsman and the "consulting engineer". With everything done by me and overseen by the company (spm) this was the first time I experienced the opportunity to work for family and worst of all my parents. They demanding and I must say with my father working in the the similar field as consulting engineer, steel engineer and with 43 years of experience I was the one listening to him instead of me doing the entire work on my own. With that responsibility I learned that drawing plans seems to be the hard part and time consuming but when the actual dwelling is being built it's really where my knowledge grew. Working hand in hand with the builder I released that they are really the backbone of the entire structure and with the experience gained from them I got to learn a few tips and solutions to many problems that occur on site and how as a young student in architecture can avoid drawing up plans that always results in problems because of a lack of experience and laziness.
These are just a few pictures I took recently, will post more as the building completes.
With two and a half months left of work. It seems to me as if the start of the year was just yesterday. With a wide range of work covered thus far i certainly learned a chunk load compare to what I knew the start of the year. The pro's and cons of this year is fairly spared out between the two and with council coming into play I really didn't expect them to be a similar figure as if they our new lectures with amendments being compared to our redo's. I enjoy every moment of work learning everyday and with a great crew you can really enjoy work and have that balance of fun and work.
Although construction of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Strasbourg started in 1015, it was not until 1439 that the spire was completed.
During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side.
England's Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's Colosseum.
Evard Ericksen sculpted “The Little Mermaid” statue which is located in Copenhagen harbor.
Frederic-August Bartholdi sculpted The Statue of Liberty.
Hoover Dam is 726 feet tall and 660 feet thick at its base. Enough rock was excavated in its construction to build the Great Wall of China.
If any of the heads on Mt. Rushmore had a body, it would be nearly 500 feet tall.
On July 28th, 1945, a US Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
The Eiffel Tower is 984 feet high.
The Eiffel Tower receives a fresh coat of 300 tons of reddish-green paint every seven years.
The estimated weight of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is 6,648,000 tons.
The great Gothic cathedral of Milan was started in 1386, and wasn’t completed until 1805.
The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
The largest movie theater in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York City, opened in December, 1932. It originally had 5,945 seats
The Taj Mahal was commissioned in 1630 by Shah Jehan to honor his wife Mumtaz, who died in childbirth.
The world's largest art gallery is the Winter Palace and Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Visitors would have to walk 15 miles to see the 322 galleries which house nearly 3 million works of art.
The world's largest Gothic cathedral is in new York City. It is the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue and 112th Street. The cathedral measures 601 feet long, 146 feet wide, and has a transept measuring 320 feet from end to end.
There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
There are 403 steps from the foundation to the top of the torch in the Statue of Liberty.
Work on St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, began in 1506. Construction took over a century, reaching completion in 1612.
With my first week back to work after block week 3. I jumped straight into demo and hoarding plans. This project was for a Mcdonalds in Malmesbury. The project is set to start as soon as November 2013 and with that comes lots of stress on the architects to finish up these plans in time and avoid any amendments. This week ended up being very productive and went by very fast.
The
award-winning Lloyds building was designed by Italian-born architect Richard
Rogers. This
futuristic building looks like it belongs in a sci-fi movie rather than Lime
Street in London. The award-winning Lloyds building (also known as the
Inside-Out building) is an iconic architectural landmark and one of the
most recognisable constructions on the London skyline. Architect Richard Rogers was
the brains behind the innovative design, which has its services - including
water pipes and staircases - on the outside. Built between 1978 and 1986, the
building also features 12 outside lifts, which were the first of their kind in
the UK.
Due to restoration work carried out in 2001, the tower
currently leans at just under 4 degrees. It is estimated that it will collapse
in the next 75-100 years.The Leaning Tower of Pisa is one of the most remarkable
architectural structures in Europe. Most famous for its tilt, the tower began
to lean during construction after soft ground on one side was unable to
properly support the structure's weight. Building work on the tower began in 1173 and went on for
over a whopping 300 years. There has been much controversy surrounding the true
identity of the architect behind the tower - the design originally attributed
to artist Bonnano Pisano but studies have also implicated architect Diotisalvi.
