utterly random picture thread.

[gremlin]

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Mooo!

[Felix]

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Mooo!

You pissed? That is a sheep and everyone knows they go Woof, woof.

[Taipan]

[gremlin]

Hefty? To fetch tea and do a bit of filing?

It's political correctness gone mad, I tell ya.

[Taipan]

[Taipan]

Busy Oxford Street on Christmas Eve, 1955.



credit: Sunday Telegraph.

[Yorick]

My cousin's just been to Auchvist.

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[mangocrazy]

A nice bottle of Rosé for when you're feeling a bit sweary...

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[gremlin]

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Forgive the crap photo.

The Gremlinette has a friend called Julie. She's just finished her Masters in architecture and this is one of the CAD drawings she presented at the end exam. It reflects her Philippine heritage and she is, rightly, chuffed to bits with it.
She is the nicest kid, who's had a bit of a tough life already. Her dad, a respected architect, died in front of her when she was five, and hence she wants to follow in his footsteps. Christ, is she smart and driven!
She calls us her adoptive family and I half-jokingly call her my second daughter. Love her to bits.
I was moved when she said she wanted us to have this picture as a thank you for what we have done for her over the years. It now proudly hangs in the kitchen of Chez Gremlin.

(Frame from IKEA...sorry Julie!)

[636mick]

My cousin's just been to Auchvist.

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I’ve been a couple of times doing research on my distant family. My great, great great grandfather (possibly another great) had 43 members of his family go in, only 1 ever came out and I’m looking at how long they survived, if at all, as many were executed on the day of arrival. In one of the original brick barrack blocks the walls are lined with pictures, with a day/time of arrival, plus a day/time of death. Some of these are measured in less than an hour.
Worth a visit just once in your life.
Mick

[gremlin]

It is on my list of places.

[demographic]

So Carlisles getting a bypass, needs a bridge.


Not my work on this occasion although I do sometimes end up on shuttering jobs it's not really something I've specialised in.

[mangocrazy]

That will take a fair few Readymix lorries to fill. Presumably there is a standard template for structures of this sort and all the shuttering gets re-used multiple times?

[Count Steer]

Mobility scooters have improved a bit since then.

(Safer than his Mini though ).

[Mr. Dazzle]

That will take a fair few Readymix lorries to fill. Presumably there is a standard template for structures of this sort and all the shuttering gets re-used multiple times?

Goes beyond even that, there are standard beams, columns etc. that are pre made off site.

There's a house in Spain made from them. I think it's great but it may not be to all tastes.

Yes that is a swimming pool in that huge gutter.

[Count Steer]

That will take a fair few Readymix lorries to fill. Presumably there is a standard template for structures of this sort and all the shuttering gets re-used multiple times?

Goes beyond even that, there are standard beams, columns etc. that are pre made off site.

There's a house in Spain made from them. I think it's great but it may not be to all tastes.

Yes that is a swimming pool in that huge gutter.

I like a bit of brutalism (but I bet the roof leaks* ).

* maybe that's what the spout/pool at the front is for.

[Mr. Dazzle]

The thing ISTR about that house was that it was surprisingly cheap! Might be getting mixed up with another one on the same TV series but I think that one came in the hundreds of k, rather than the millions I was expecting.

Beauty of using off the shelf bits maybe

Plus it was the artichoke's own house, so presumably he saved a few euros.

[Count Steer]

The thing ISTR about that house was that it was surprisingly cheap! Might be getting mixed up with another one on the same TV series but I think that one came in the hundreds of k, rather than the millions I was expecting.

Beauty of using off the shelf bits maybe

Plus it was the artichoke's own house, so presumably he saved a few euros.

It has echos of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye (which - 'Due to many different problems it was rarely inhabited. After surviving several proposals to demolish it, it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965 .... ' Bit of a laugh really as he said 'A house is a machine for living in'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Savoye

[Mr. Dazzle]

Guess you might also be familiar with the former Tricorn centre in Portsmouth?

There was discussion for ages about tearing down this properly 1960s brutalist concrete shopping bunker.

In the end they got rid of the ugly building and replaced it with a beautiful car park

[demographic]

That will take a fair few Readymix lorries to fill. Presumably there is a standard template for structures of this sort and all the shuttering gets re-used multiple times?

Reusable steel shutters for the straight bits and in this case wooden shutters for the curving fascia, soffit looking bit that sticks out. Done right and the wooden shutters should be reusable a good few times then can be taken apart and made into something else afterwards.
You can see one of them either ready to be fitted or just removed on the top, boat bow shaped plywood section.
Plus we sometimes add a timber section in between the steel shutters to buuld up non standard sizes or end widths.
This shows the backs of the steel shutters on one I worked ((briefly) on. Also tou can see the cla.ps that hold the shutters together and the end of the threaded Diwidagg (sp?) bars that go through plastic tubes in the area that will be filled with concrete and the square plates and spinners which hold one wall of the mold a set distance from the other.



For absolutely inspired shuttering work on a massive scale theres a Ninth Fort memorial in Lithuania which is just amazing. Think its something like 100 ffeet high.