Rusty Nail by Stefan Giers

I found this fantastic structure on a corten steel blog...111 tons of it! Its built to a triangular plan and around 30 metres high. Criss crossing stair cases lead to a viewing platform at the top where users can see the lakes of the former opencast mining. i think the use of corten is a nod to the industrial landscape that used to make up the surrounding area. Found by Lake Sedlitz. photos are from a fantastic blog on Coalscapes found here: http://coalscapes.com/design/#.US_uQutGwU8

Lines of The Louvre

Great shapes around the Louvre and one fantastic staircase. All taken on a Canon ixus.

Buchanan Street, 1999

I studied the regeneration of Buchanan Street during my first degree for a project entitled "A Good Place". The aim of the project was to discover what it is that makes a place "good".

Gillespies won the design competition that the City of Glasgow initiated in 1999 - below are some photos from way back that I included in my original piece of work. All taken on a Canon Ixus.

At the time I was studying Land Surveying and knew nothing of Landscape Architecture. Everything is a little clearer now.

Sort of. 

new vs old

 peacock above the entrance to Buchanan Street Galleries. Designed by Alan Dawson.

a busy night scene looking east into Princess Square. 

the tail lights of a bus cutting across Buchanan Street.  

Spiers and Major won the competition for the lighting design, a key factor in the project.

Distance, Memory, Space, and Time concept sheets

This is from a while back...around october 2012 we were asked to come up with interpretations of four conceptual ideas: Memory, Space, Distance, and Time. Not the best work I've produced.