CITY MOVEMENT_An some sausages to boot

A recent MSA Architecture trip to Stuttgart (late winter 2009) produced some interesting stuff:

Future of our City_Manchester city wall

DO WE REALLY NEED PUBLIC SPACE?

The scheme deals with the problem of, to coin the term 'inner city centralization' a common theme in many British and also post war European cities. I've discovered that Manchesters repeated attempt to reinvigorate the districts of Ancoats, Oldham road and provide a link between Picadilly gardens and New Islington have not been effective. The 'INNER CITY RIDGE' would provide the users with a green link into and out of the city, raised from the streets below.

Ossuary Orthen / Buijsenpennock Architects

When much needed landscape maintenance at the 150 year-old cemetery in Orthen required many graves to be emptied, a competition was held to design a new resting place for the remains of 12,000 people. Buijsenpennock Architects responded by designing an ossuary that can be seen as a series of walls, made by a mesh of rough oak columns and beams.

Grizedale Viewing Deck

Grizdale Viewing Deck, Lake District, England_

Architect: Benjamin Hale

The brief asked for a viewing deck/tower above one of three selected sites located in the Grizedale woodland area of  the Peak District, England.  The scheme proposes a hanging structure with a seated platform beneath that allows the user unobstructed views of the Northern Peaks aswell as a closer interaction level with the natural enviroment below.

Name: DIZZY HEIGHTS

Artist: Benjamin Hale
Status: FOR SALE
Year: 2008
Price: $154.99

City Pulse

Name: CITY PULSE

Artist: Benjamin Hale
Status: SOLD
Year: 2007