six buildings on the shortlist. today is the turn of 15 clerkenwell close, a mixed use office and residential building in central london. on construction, its limestone facade proved controversial with the local council initially calling for the building s demolition, a decision later overturned on appeal. people might look at this building and think, oh, it s completely modern and contemporary, i ve never seen anything like it. but, actually, the building methodology is as old as the megalithic architects, builders. my name is amin taha, i am chairman of groupwork, a firm of architects. we are in 15 clerkenwell close. it s a mixed use building, it has office space in it and residential. this building is in many ways differentiated from others by the stone exoskeleton. the whole building is held up by stone alone, but, at the same time, it s going to be the externalfinish. what s it going to look like? what s the actual appearance of it?
overturned on appeal. people might look at this building and think it is completely modern and think it is completely modern and contemporary, i have never seen anything like it, but actually the building methodology is as old as the megalithic architects and builders. i am chairman of group work, a firm of architects. we are in 15 clerkenwell close. it is a mixed use building that has office space and residential. this building is in many ways differentiated from others by the stone exoskeleton. the whole building is held up by stone alone. at the same time it will be the externalfinish. alone. at the same time it will be the external finish. what is it going to look like, what is the actual appearance of it? as we were visiting the quarries to decide what tone of limescale we might choose, the quarry master had erected a column for us as a sample of what
later overturned on appeal. people might look at this building and think it is completely modern and contemporary, i have never seen anything like it, but actually the building methodology is as old as the megalithic architects and builders. i am chairman of groupwork, a firm of architects. we are in 15 clerkenwell close. it is a mixed use building that has office space in it and residential. this building is in many ways differentiated from others by the stone exoskeleton. the whole building is held up by stone alone. at the same time, it will be the externalfinish. what is it going to look like, what is the actual appearance of it? as we were visiting the quarries, to decide what tone of limestone we might choose, the quarry master had erected a column for us as a sample of
the whole building is held up by stone alone, but, at the same time, it s going to be the externalfinish. what s it going to look like? what s the actual appearance of it? as we were visiting the quarries to decide what tone of limestone we might choose, the quarry master erected a column for us as a sample of what this might look like. next to that was what s called a master block, which is extracted from the quarry. it had fossils, ammonite shells, fossilised coral, all over the surface. that is the expression not only of the material itself, but also the process, the skill of the quarry master and the stonemason, expressed in the material and therefore the architecture. the advantages of an exoskeleton are no internal structure. that flexibility at the moment is a series of moving walls and doors. those doors can slide across and subdivide a larger room into smaller ones, which essentially means that, whatever you lay out internally for today, can be removed tomorrow.
facade proved controversial with the local council initially calling for the building s demolition, a decision later overturned on appeal. people might look at this building and think, oh, it s completely modern and contemporary, i ve never seen anything like it. but, actually, the building methodology is as old as the megalithic architects, builders. my name is amin taha, i am chairman of groupwork, a firm of architects. we are in 15 clerkenwell close. it s a mixed use building, it has office space in it and residential. this building is in many ways differentiated from others by the stone exoskeleton. the whole building is held up by stone alone, but, at the same time, it s going to be the externalfinish. what s it going to look like? what s the actual appearance of it? as we were visiting the quarries to decide what tone of limestone we might choose, the quarry master erected a column for us as a sample of what this might look like.