Not a boring box at all
Sep. 17th, 2002 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
major_clangerSince we moved to Huntingdon my job has required me to take trips by train into London once or twice a month. On the way into King's Cross, I've often noticed a most unusual building backing onto the railway line, looking for all the world as if it was made out of sandbags. Being a (very) amateur connoisseur of architecture I decided to try to find out a bit more.
Sitting on the train this morning with an A-Z I worked out that it must be in or near Stock Orchard Street. A quick google during a break in my course showed me I had been looking at No 9/10, an imaginative and ecologically-friendly house/office development that was one of the nominees for this year's Building of the Year award.
There's more information at the architect's website (which features some of the nicer and less intrusive uses of Flash that I've seen of late). I think I'm in love; I dread the idea of ending up living in a boring box, and this is about as far from that as you can get. Of course, it's attracted its share of moaners in the architectural press, but other people seem to like it (NB: PDF) and so do I. Perhaps one day...
And yes, it is made of (or at least fronted by) sandbags.
MC
Sitting on the train this morning with an A-Z I worked out that it must be in or near Stock Orchard Street. A quick google during a break in my course showed me I had been looking at No 9/10, an imaginative and ecologically-friendly house/office development that was one of the nominees for this year's Building of the Year award.
There's more information at the architect's website (which features some of the nicer and less intrusive uses of Flash that I've seen of late). I think I'm in love; I dread the idea of ending up living in a boring box, and this is about as far from that as you can get. Of course, it's attracted its share of moaners in the architectural press, but other people seem to like it (NB: PDF) and so do I. Perhaps one day...
And yes, it is made of (or at least fronted by) sandbags.
MC
