This is a bit of an odd building and can be found in the Steglitz neighbourhood of Berlin. It wasn’t something that was on our architectural must-see’s whilst we were over there but after realizing we were staying close by we decided to go see it.

It occupies a prominent location above the main shopping street and a busy dual carriageway and at 46 meters tall it is visible from quite some way away. Its name translates as ‘beer brush’, whether that is because it looks like one I don’t know. Built between 1972 and 1976 it was originally three floors of bar, restaurant and nightclub, mixed in with periods of closure, as is its current state.

In 2010 graffiti artists gave the Bierpinsel its current look as part of the Turmkunst (Tower Art) 2010 project.

You can see more pictures on Flickr – Bierpinsel // Berlin

These are some images from the Great Court following a recent visit to the British Museum. The Great Court was refurbished by Foster and Partners and re-opened in 2000 and is apparently the largest enclosed public space in Europe. Foster’s glazed canopy encloses the space between the museum itself and the Round Reading Room (now the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Centre) and in the process creates a public square that also doubles as a temporary exhibition space.

More images can be found on my Flickr pages – The British Museum // Foster and Partners

The Neues Museum in Berlin was at the top of my list of things to see on our recent (architecture) trip to Berlin…and it did not disappoint.

The original building, on what is now known as Museum Island was designed by Friedrich August Stueler and built between 1841 and 1859. Following the Second World War, when it was extensively bombed, the building was left in ruins until David Chipperfield in collaboration with Julian Harrap won the competition to rebuild it. Re-opened in 2009, the museum is a mix of entirely new architecture, which is brilliantly detailed and existing architecture (complete with bullet holes), which has been sensitively preserved and in places, lightly restored. There wasn’t an overriding agenda to completely replace and rebuild all that was lost, which rankled those with a more conservative disposition, but what resulted is a beautifully simple, beautifully detailed and strikingly sensitive restoration.

It is an absolute must see for anyone with even a passing interest in architecture.

You can find a bigger selection of (bigger if a little grainy due to the low light and no tripod) images on my Flickr pages- Neues Museum // Berlin

As part of my first commission for Tate Hindle I was asked to take headshots of their directors and associates. This was the first time I had been asked to do portraits but they didn’t turn out too bad….in my opinion.

So this is my first London commission, for Smithfield based architects Tate Hindle. I was approached to take photos of their office and directors, as they were in the process of re-branding and needed some fresh imagery for the new website and brochures. This post has all the office images, and the next will show the headshots of some of the directors.

This is the third of the commissions for Tate Hindle and again is an office building in London. Fox Court is located on Gray’s Inn Road, just a five minute walk from my studio so really quite handy. A bit like the Wilton Road project, most of Gray’s Inn Road seems to be either a taxi rank or a bus stop but with a bit of timing and patience it can be used to your advantage. That is unless the taxis park directly in front, filling most of the shot in which case finding a new angle is the only answer.

Following on from the office photographs, I was asked by Tate Hindle to get some new shots of a few projects ready for the website relaunch. The commission was carried out in late 2011 but because the website has only just been launched I am only now getting round to posting the images.

This project, a new build office building is on Wilton Road in Victoria, London and proved to be a bit of a nightmare shoot. The junction in the foreground of the images was incredibly busy and for most of my time on site the road doubled up as a taxi rank for the nearby Apollo Theatre, which was not helpful at all. But in the end I got some decent shots so not all bad.

It has been a while since the actual shoot, but here are a few of the panoramas from round two at The Chameleon in Birmingham. You can see the photos from the shoot here.

After last years successful shoot for The Chameleon in Birmingham, I was recently asked back to take more photographs following their post Christmas refurbishment. As with the first shoot, there was to be a mix of still images and interactive panoramas focussing primarily on the areas that had changed. The aim of the shoot was to show how the spaces had changed and also to prospective customers through the website, how versatile the venue can be. In this post are a selection of the still images before hopefully adding the panoramas later in the week (if I can figure out how to make them iProduct friendly).

It is quite a long post as some of the images are massive, so if you scroll all the way to the bottom, you can see them in a more user friendly gallery instead.

Centrepoint has to be one of my favourite buildings in London (of the ones I have managed to get to) and Central St. Giles’ next door neighbour. I was lucky enough to attend a party at the top a few months ago, and the view from the top is incredible. Designed by Richard Seifert, Centrepoint stands 117m tall and was completed in 1966. Like its next door neighbour, it proved controversial, notably for its height, it sat empty for years, and conspiracy theorists even had their say. But this is it today, in all its concrete and glass glory (with a few photos from previous posts for good measure).