http://www.adamcoupe.com/blogNews and updates from commercial and architectual photographer Adam Coupeen-gbAdam CoupePhotographyAcetylene 0.0.4 (RSSFeed 1.0)http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/290/diller_scofidio_and_renfro_scoop_broad_museum/view.htm Art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad has finally named US practice Diller Scofidio and Renfro as the architects for his museum of contemporary art in downtown Los Angeles. The practice beat a six-strong shortlist that included British practice Foreign Office Architects as well as Rem Koolhass’ OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, Christian de Portzamparc and Sanaa, after being named as a front runner for the commission in May.  Broad, along with his wife Edythe, is one of the highest profile arts figures in America and will populate the museum from his private collection which is thought to contain more than 2,000 pieces from a diverse range of artists. The new museum will cover 120,000 sq ft and have a budget of between $80 million and $100 million on top of the $7.7 million the Broads will pay to lease the land. The entire cost of the project will be covered privately, and the Broads are also endowing the museum with $200 million to cover its annual operating expenses.  Rumours around the site of the future museum were also settled on Monday when plans were approved by city officials to release 2.5 acres of publicly owned land on Grand Avenue close to Frank Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall and the Museum of Contemporary Art by Arata Isozaki. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/290/diller_scofidio_and_renfro_scoop_broad_museum/view.htmWed, 25 Aug 2010 19:01:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/289/affordable_housing_scheme_in_brighton_wins_planning/view.htm Atkins Blair Ings Richardson Architects has won planning permission for an affordable housing scheme in Brighton after five years, three separate applications, two public enquires and significant design changes. The proposals will create 39 affordable flats and is one of the first tall buildings in the area.  The L-shaped scheme features a terrace of ground floor flats with maisonettes above, which resemble town houses and was inspired by the Victorian terraces adjacent to the site. The properties have pitched, sedum roofs. There is also a seven-storey block with dark brickwork and painted render on the north east corner of the site, near the suburb of Kemptown.  The final part of the scheme is a four-storey block with an “industrial” aesthetic.  The first planning application was submitted by developer The Hyde Group for the site in 2006 – but withdrawn on the advice of the Brighton & Hove Council’s planning department. A revamped scheme was rejected in July 2007 and, after a public inquiry in May 2008, an appeal against that decision was thrown out in 2009.  Another revised scheme for the site was rejected by the council last summer but, after a public inquiry, has finally been upheld. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/289/affordable_housing_scheme_in_brighton_wins_planning/view.htmTue, 24 Aug 2010 19:05:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/288/lewisham_council_backs_prp_almshouses_scheme/view.htm PRP’s proposal for a series of almshouses in south-east London has been backed by council planners. The scheme, in Lewisham, replaces existing almshouses with 62 one and two bedroom houses aimed at elderly people. Nearly 30 maisonettes will also be built and put up for private sale. PRP has designed the houses for the Merchants Taylor Company. The complex will include a working garden for those residents wanting to grow their own produce. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/288/lewisham_council_backs_prp_almshouses_scheme/view.htmMon, 23 Aug 2010 19:13:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/287/foster_and_koolhaas_unveil_rival_schemes_for_hong_kong/view.htm OMA and Foster & Partners have revealed images and details of their conceptual masterplans for a major new £1.8 billion (HK$21.6 billion) arts district in Hong Kong. The practices, together with Hong Kong-based practice Rocco Design, are competing in a 40ha competition to create the West Kowloon Cultural District on a waterfront site facing the city’s Victoria Harbour. Each practice will receive £4 million for its role. OMA’s proposal, above, which will be on display at the Venice Biennale, proposes three new urban villages set within a public park that would be the largest in Hong Kong.  The project features a new museum of visual art, film, design and popular culture with an “art factory” including education space, artists’ studios, a hotel and a shop, with an exhibition centre beneath and a series of theatre spaces including a 15,000-seat stadium.  In the middle of the plan is a village inspired by the existing street markets of Kowloon, flanked by a theatre and school for Cantonese performance and a cinema. Foster & Partners’ scheme, below, features a major new 23ha public park and 17 “spectacular new cultural buildings” as well as 300,000sq m of education facilities.  It also includes the museum, concert halls and expo centre as well as a major opera house, but proposes extending the existing pattern of streets in Kowloon into the new development to create a natural extension to the urban fabric with colonnades, alleyways, lanes and tree-lined promenades. Foster’s had developed an earlier plan for the site, which was scrapped before it was invited to participate in this competition. The plans from all three practices will be on display around Hong Kong in a roving exhibition until November 20 before a final winner is selected to create a detailed plan which will go into consultation next year. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/287/foster_and_koolhaas_unveil_rival_schemes_for_hong_kong/view.htmSat, 21 Aug 2010 19:33:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/286/nightingales_blackpool_school_survives_bsf_cull/view.htm Nightingales has managed to salvage work from the wreckage of its first Building Schools for the Future contract, which it won just 72 hours before the government scrapped the initiative. The architect was named preferred bidder for the £180 million Blackpool BSF scheme on July 2 as part of a team headed by Preston builder Eric Wright Group.  But three days later education secretary Michael Gove said he was scrapping the £55 billion schools rebuilding programme, axing hundreds of projects. The Blackpool scheme was supposed to build 13 schools, but now just two sample schools have been saved – Fielden Clegg Bradley’s Highfield High and Nightingales’ St Mary’s Catholic College.  Nightingales’ head of education Adrian Swain said the firm had worked on some BSF schemes before, but Blackpool was the first deal it had bid for as part of a consortium.  “We’re pleased this school has got funding,” he said. “It’s better than nothing. We had been looking to get into BSF for some time.”   The firm will build a “through school” – called St Mary’s Catholic College & Christ the King Catholic primary school – which will teach children from primary school age up to secondary school age on the one site.  Around 250 pupils will attend the primary school with a further 1,250 at the secondary school. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/286/nightingales_blackpool_school_survives_bsf_cull/view.htmFri, 20 Aug 2010 19:37:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/285/john_thompsons_ealing_scheme_wins_planning/view.htm John Thompson & Partners’ mixed use scheme for the centre of Ealing has won detailed planning permission. The high-density scheme in west London, known as Dickens Yard, contains three new public spaces, 45,000sq m of residential accommodation featuring nearly 700 flats and 11,000sq m of retail, leisure, dining and community uses. The practice drew up the scheme for St George West London during three years of public consultation including presentations and workshops. It integrates into its surroundings by addressing neighbouring historic buildings and linking to existing routes in the town centre. The aim is to attract local specialist shops as well as national chains, said Geraldine Reilly of John Thompson. The development meets Code for Sustainable Homes level 3 and features landscaped roofs, combined heat and power and a car club. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/285/john_thompsons_ealing_scheme_wins_planning/view.htmWed, 18 Aug 2010 19:30:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/284/planners_back_glenn_howells_water_company_hq/view.htm   Designs by Glenn Howells Architects to turn an office for water company Severn Trent into a green flagship have been approved by local planners.   The company is redeveloping its existing office at Shelton on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, and wants to transform it into a low-energy complex.  The main elements of the building will comprise recycled timber, clear glazing and natural anodised aluminium.  Glenn Howells associate director Dav Bansal said the development, which will cover nearly 3,000sq m, “will enable its occupants and visitors to actively participate in saving energy. Physically, we have orientated the building to manage solar gains.” The practice, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in October, is due to start work on site this autumn. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/284/planners_back_glenn_howells_water_company_hq/view.htmTue, 17 Aug 2010 19:21:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/283/green_light_for_barking_housing_development/view.htm A scheme by Jestico & Whiles and Glenn Howells Architects to build nearly 1,000 homes on a former industrial site in east London has been given outline planning. London Thames Gateway Development Corporation gave the green light to Countryside Properties’ development for Fresh Wharf, Barking, which is also being masterminded by Fresh Wharf Developments.  Proposals for the 4.4ha site include 950 homes along with nearly 2,000sq m of retail and leisure space and 1,600sq m of community space. This includes the option to build a nursery school. Meanwhile, work has started on a £20 million scheme in Barking by Van Heyningen & Haward.  Called the Rivergate Centre, it includes a school, church and health centre in the first phase, with nearly 100 flats and retail units following in the second phase. The centre, which is being built for the local council and a team consisting of Bellway Homes and the Homes & Communities Agency, is due to be completed in autumn 2011. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/283/green_light_for_barking_housing_development/view.htmMon, 16 Aug 2010 19:38:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/282/bblur_goahead_for_slough_centre/view.htm London based practice Bblur Architecture has won planning permission for a new 4,447sq m library and cultural centre for Slough. The building, located on a site adjacent to the existing St Ethelbert’s Church, is part of the £450 million heart of Slough regeneration project and includes a 180 seat performance space, a new cafe and council meeting rooms.  Once built, the scheme will provide a pedestrian link between Slough’s new bus station and Mackenzie Square, a popular public space.  It is now due to start on site in early 2012. The existing public library will remain open until the new building opens in 2013. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/282/bblur_goahead_for_slough_centre/view.htmThu, 12 Aug 2010 19:42:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/281/adept_and_sou_fujimoto_to_design_swedish_library/view.htm Danish firm Adept, along with Japanese practice Sou Fujimoto, has won a competition to design a new library in Sweden. The scheme at Falun will feature a 3,000sq m library along with an adjoining plaza which features a mix of recreational functions and furniture.  One of the features of the building is a sloping ramp through the building which is designed to act as a ‘spiral of knowledge’. Wooden facades are designed to integrate the building into its surrounds.  “It’s an exciting building rich on variety and with may possible meeting points integrated into a coherent environment,” said the competition jury. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/281/adept_and_sou_fujimoto_to_design_swedish_library/view.htmWed, 11 Aug 2010 19:22:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/280/glenn_howells_architects_new_motorway_service_station/view.htm The £30 million project will create a “restful rural oasis” with low-energy buildings built into the landscape. The competition-winning scheme has been approved by Stroud District Council.The site, named Gloucestershire Gateway, lies between junctions 11a and 12 of the M5.  The exterior has been designed to “seamlessly blend” with the surrounding countryside and the timber-clad interior features curvy chairs, low coffee tables and subtle lighting.Downmarket franchises have been banned and instead the food served will be locally sourced and artisan produced. Income will be fed back into the local community.  Sustainable features include rainwater harvesting and recycling of catering waste – some of which will be composted and used on the service station’s gardens.  The project was approved despite concerns raised by the Highways Agency that it would become an attraction in its own right, bringing tourists as well as motorway traffic.You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/280/glenn_howells_architects_new_motorway_service_station/view.htmTue, 10 Aug 2010 19:38:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/279/feilden_clegg_bradleys_13th_century_priory_scheme/view.htm Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has won planning for its £5.8 million “language immersion centre” at a 13th century priory in Gloucester.The three-storey educational facility will replace 19th and 20th century industrial buildings, which were built on the south-east quadrant of the medieval Blackfriars Priory.  The new brick structure is intended to repair the form of the cloister courtyard of Britain’s best-preserved Dominican priory.  The building should transform the priory into a public venue with a new public route across the site linking the cloister with a proposed new square.It will also reconnect to remote upper floors of adjoining priory ranges to make these accessible to all, said the practice.Feilden Clegg Bradley previously led the design team for the site’s masterplan, which is regarded as the critical project within Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company’s plans to redevelop the city. The project area contains more than 40 listed buildings, 23 of them grade I, and two scheduled ancient monuments.  The immersion centre, targeted at teenagers, will concentrate on less-taught languages such as Russian, Mandarin and Arabic.You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/279/feilden_clegg_bradleys_13th_century_priory_scheme/view.htmMon, 09 Aug 2010 19:32:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/278/bdps_winning_designs_for_nanjing_medical_university/view.htm   BDP has won an international design competition to create a new faculty of medicine and administrative building at Nanjing Medical University in China.   The practice beat Pritzker prize winner Christian de Portzamparc and a team from the Architectural Design Institute of Zhejiang University from Hangzhou, with a unanimous vote from the competition judges.  The two buildings, together covering more than 70,000sq m, will be the first by a foreign architect on the university campus in Jiangsu province. The faculty of medicine will provide teaching and research spaces while the administrative building will also include a museum and conference facilities.  BDP has now been appointed to develop the scheme, which is due to start on site in spring 2011, to the end of detailed design stage. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/278/bdps_winning_designs_for_nanjing_medical_university/view.htmFri, 06 Aug 2010 19:34:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/277/uks_largest_application_approved_for_liverpool/view.htm Wirral Planning Committee has granted permission for the UK’s largest planning application – the £4.5 billion Wirral Waters scheme in Liverpool. The application for outline planning permission for the 1.7 million sq m scheme was submitted by developer Peel Holdings in December 2009 and includes large projects by SOM, Glenn Howells, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and HKR. Each architect will design a quarter within the city-sized project as part of an overall strategy being led by engineering firm Martin Stockley Associates.  Peel says that the project will create more than 20,000 new jobs and 14,000 new homes in the area around Wirral’s derelict Birkenhead docks and will be delivered over a 30-year period. It will also build 400,000sq m of office space, 60,000sq m of retail space, 38,000sq m of hotel and conference facilities and 100,000sq m of culture, education, community and leisure space.  Prior to winning outline planning permission, the scheme had been through four years of masterplanning and public consultation. It won unanimous backing from Wirral Council’s planning committee, after all four local MPs wrote in support of the scheme and Liverpool Council pledged its support.  Peel is also developing the £5.5 billion 150-acre Liverpool Waters scheme on the other side of the Mersey River, which encompasses areas of the city’s World Heritage Site and is still in planning. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/277/uks_largest_application_approved_for_liverpool/view.htmWed, 04 Aug 2010 20:13:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/276/new_york_gives_goahead_to_viñoly_housing/view.htm Planners in New York have approved designs by Rafael Viñoly to build affordable housing. The city council has rubber-stamped the scheme, called New Domino, which will see 660 units of affordable housing put up along with 1.6ha of parkland along the East River in the city’s Brooklyn borough. It will be built on the former Domino Sugar Refinery complex close to the Williamsburg Bridge. Viñoly was commissioned to draw up a masterplan for the site back in 2005. The scheme will feature 2,200 apartments spread across four towers — two of 30 storeys and two of  34 storeys. Work is expected to start next year.  As part of the work, the refinery complex will remain as well as local landmark, a 12m-high Domino Sugar sign. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536.   adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/276/new_york_gives_goahead_to_viñoly_housing/view.htmMon, 02 Aug 2010 19:58:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/275/purcell_miller_trittons_manchester_hotel_plan/view.htm The Victorian Society has praised Purcell Miller Tritton’s plans to save Manchester’s grade-II* listed fire headquarters by turning it into a luxury hotel. The practice has submitted a planning application to the city council which would preserve many of the 1906 building’s original features. It is expected to be considered by the planning committee next month.  It once housed a police station and a coroner’s court, as well as around 40 flats where the firemen lived with their families. “We are delighted that such a sensitive approach has been taken with the conversion of one of Manchester’s finest historic buildings,” said Alex Baldwin, conservation adviser for the Victorian Society, which has written to the council supporting the plans. The building, now empty, has been on English Heritage’s Buildings at Risk register since 2001. Under Purcell Miller Tritton’s plans, drawn up for owner Britannia Hotels, the firemen’s flats would become 27 bedrooms featuring the original poles used by the firemen to get to work. The engine sheds would become function rooms, the coroner’s court would be a wedding venue and the old police station would be converted into a bar and café, with the cells turned into dining booths. A former gas meter testing station would become the hotel’s main restaurant. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/275/purcell_miller_trittons_manchester_hotel_plan/view.htmFri, 30 Jul 2010 19:48:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/274/viñoly_to_design_kennedy_building/view.htm   Rafael Viñoly has been appointed to design a new building at Boston’s University of Massachusetts.   Named after the late Ted Kennedy, who died last August, the Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States will be built next to the existing presidential library and museum which is named after his late older brother, former president John. The new building is aimed at educating visitors on the senate’s role in government life and its centrepiece will be 4,000sq m of programme space. The development will also include a large expanse of public space.  You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/274/viñoly_to_design_kennedy_building/view.htmThu, 29 Jul 2010 19:38:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/273/d5_creates_new_bus_station_for_chatham/view.htm Work on D5 Architects’ designs for a new £5 million bus station in Chatham, Kent, is due to be completed next March. The Birmingham practice has integrated a sedum roof into the station canopies while the waiting areas beneath will feature tall glass screens to shelter passengers from the elements.  The design, which will replace the existing bus station outside the town’s Pentagon Shopping Centre, will also feature a GPS system, to track buses and offer real-time information on arrivals and departures for passengers. Landscape architect is Gillespies. The project is being paid for using Medway Council’s allocation from the Homes & Communities Agency’s Thames Gateway regeneration fund.You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/273/d5_creates_new_bus_station_for_chatham/view.htmWed, 28 Jul 2010 19:26:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/272/kohn_pedersen_foxs_60_holborn_viaduct/view.htm Work to market Kohn Pedersen Fox’s 60 Holborn Viaduct has resumed more than two years after planning consent was granted. It was put on hold because of the recession but if a pre-let arrangement can be made, the 20,000 sq m development on the edge of the City of London from Favermead will replace the existing Bath House, built in the 60s.  KPF principal John Bushell said the move to market was “a response to the current commercial office market in London”. The building is set to achieve a BREAAM rating of Excellent and work will also include the rebuilding, in traditional materials, of the Gate House at the north-east corner of Farringdon Road. It will feature a façade of twisting fins over a light glazed curtain wall. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/272/kohn_pedersen_foxs_60_holborn_viaduct/view.htmMon, 26 Jul 2010 19:35:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/271/edward_cullinan_film_centre_in_the_frame/view.htm Edward Cullinan Architects has been given planning for a state-of-the-art film storage centre in Warwickshire for the BFI. Called the Master Film Store, the complex at Gaydon will hold more than 500,000 cans of films as well as a host of television shows. Cold and dry storage will be provided at the site to ensure the archive survives over time. The design, which features a sloping green roof, uses precast concrete panels to provide thermal mass. Sophisticated controls provide sub-zero temperatures and low humidity for preservation.  Work is to start this autumn for completion by winter 2011. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/271/edward_cullinan_film_centre_in_the_frame/view.htmSat, 24 Jul 2010 20:33:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/270/miralles_replaced_in_leeds/view.htm Chapman Taylor’s revised design for a £350 million Leeds shopping centre has been attacked by the architects the firm replaced. The firm’s designs have now been revealed for the first time after the recession-hit Trinity Leeds shopping centre was this week finally given the go-ahead by Land Securities – 11 years after it first made the drawing board.  The developer bought the 70,000sq m city centre site from its former partner Caddick three years ago, and dropped the original architects, EMBT and Colchester practice Stanley Bragg, because it wanted something “more deliverable”.  The job was originally won in 1999 by Stanley Bragg which invited EMBT to work on the roof along with facade and landscaping work. Chapman Taylor director Adrian Griffiths said its design addressed the street better than its predecessor which he described as “very challenging and very costly”.  Chapman Taylor will move staff from its Media City scheme, winding up in Manchester, across the Pennines to Leeds. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536.adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/270/miralles_replaced_in_leeds/view.htmFri, 23 Jul 2010 19:28:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/269/mcdaniel_woolf_proposes_new_bridge_for_twickenham/view.htm Richmond practice McDaniel Woolf has drawn up plans for a pedestrian and cycle crossing over the Thames in south-west London. It would connect Ham House to Strawberry Hill House via Radnor Gardens and the Great River Avenue.  The plans go on display tomorrow in the borough as part of a three-day public consultation about the future of Twickenham.  The bridge, which is only a proposal at this stage by the architect and local consultancy Interrelated, features two lanes for cyclists as well as a footpath. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/269/mcdaniel_woolf_proposes_new_bridge_for_twickenham/view.htmWed, 21 Jul 2010 19:22:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/268/cf_møller_wins_swedish_masterplan_competition/view.htm Danish practice CF Møller has won a competition to design the masterplan for a new housing district in Gothenburg, Sweden. The scheme, in the Lindholm area of the city’s old industrial ports, proposes for 10 buildings with a total area of more than 70,000sq m and a 22-storey tower.  Buildings and sites in the district have been predominantly turned into business parks, but CF Møller said its project would introduce a “humane scale and a different architecture focusing on the small-scale urban spaces within the scheme by refining the positioning, geometry and transparency of the buildings”. The blocks of flats will feature in of recycled aluminium facades in a reference to the area’s ship-building history. They will vary in height from four to 10 storeys and house 400 new flats.  The practice beat three others – Helen & Hard from Norway, along with Swedish firms Kjellander & Sjöberg and KOD arkitekter – to win the competition. You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/268/cf_møller_wins_swedish_masterplan_competition/view.htmTue, 20 Jul 2010 19:17:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/267/museum_of_bond_vehicles_in_illinois/view.htm Gensler has unveiled its designs for a new museum dedicated to the world’s most famous spy, James Bond. The firm is behind the design for the Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage which is set to open in Momence, Illinois, in 2012 to mark the fiftieth  anniversary of the first Bond move, Dr No. The 14,000 sq ft museum will house the world’s largest collection of vehicles used in the Bond films and will also feature cultural artefacts of espionage along with exhibits exploring contemporary culture’s impact on the films. Key features of the building include a 007 window at the building’s most prominent corner while the remainder is clad in black horizontal corrugated metal.You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536. adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/267/museum_of_bond_vehicles_in_illinois/view.htmMon, 19 Jul 2010 19:53:00 +0100http://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/266/guys_cancer_center_designs_revealed/view.htm The six shortlisted designs for the £140 million Guys Cancer Centre building in London Bridge went on  display for two days at the offices of Southwark Council as part of a public consultation on the project. All six designs were displayed on project boards, but the names of the  teams behind each scheme were not revealed.  The six shortlisted teams are; • Anshen & Allen Associates / Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners / Laing O’Rourke • Woods Bagot / BDP / Brookfield Construction • Hopkins Architects / Skanska Construction UK • Grimshaw / Jonathan Bailey Associates / Bovis Lend Lease • Make / Mace • Allies & Morrison / Devereux Architects / Kier Regional You can view project summaries that illustrate the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our architectural photography and commercial photography service at http://www.adamcoupe.com/portfolio.  To discuss your requirements and timescales call us on 0118 989 3749 or 079101 68536.adam@adamcoupe.com (Adam Coupe)Architectural Photographyhttp://www.adamcoupe.com/blog/entry/266/guys_cancer_center_designs_revealed/view.htmThu, 08 Jul 2010 08:46:00 +0100