Project Soane_Submission

 

Just over a year ago (03 Jun 2016 at 19:31 – to be precise), I participated in a competition that was meant as a re-imagining of the original design for the Bank of England. The original building by Sir John Soane’s was destroyed.

Described by some as the greatest architectural crime of the 20th century.

www.projectsoane.com

The idea of the competition was to recreate the building in a manner that can be experienced as a historical heirloom. My imagining was to have a portion of the bank used as an entertainment/staging area for music or artistic purposes. I enlisted the large rectangular room of the Consols Transfer Room as the venue.

My main design theory was have the space be experienced in an ethereal manner, with the beauty of the interior building to encompass you – as you enjoy the music or art portrayed to you.

I hope you enjoy the imaging as much as I made them.

Design and Design Only

So here we are again. Blogging once again. I set up this blog quite awhile ago. But have been sitting on my hands and thinking of the purpose of this, and how we are going to interact with one another.

Now the title tells you where I’ve settled on. Design. And yes, I am studying architecture and my intense passion for the art form has deep, well seated roots. However, I am and will always be a designer at heart. I grew up dabbling in art, as a little boy in my early years sitting in class I was mainly preoccupied with one of my old year planners, drawing  futuristic cars. They all ended up looking like the Delorean from Back to the Future funny enough. And in high school Art class was probably my favourite place to be – despite having a teacher who hated me.

Design has always been my friend and a point of call for everything really. From fashion to architecture, industrial design to photography. Even cuisine has its beauty in simplistic design. This is what this blog is for. This is what I’m going to write about.

My absolute adoration for DESIGN.

So join me. Chat to me. Let’s have some fun. I’ll share my views and a few cases I’ll share what I work on. Today on this special day, I launch my design rambling blog. – Happy Birthday to myself.

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