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Welcome to the Whitaker Studio Blog. My name is James and I am a photographer, architect and director based in London, and this blog is a small log of the things that I have been doing and seeing.
My friends at RARA are organising a life drawing class next month with a bit of a difference…
LIFE DRAWING at the Redundant Architects Recreation Association (RARA).
The Royal Institute of British Architects London (RIBA London) invite you to the finale in their Life Drawing Sessions.
Draw the carcass through the stages of its dissemblance. Careful carving and skilled butchering will be on show for all to document.
Thursday 29th March
1900-2100
RARA
Unit 2
Grosvenor Way
Clapton E5 9ND
£5 per person
Drawing Materials, Pork and Ale will be available for a small contribution
Book online at www.architecture.com/thesocial
Amazon Studios
I noticed this about a year ago and thought it might be of interest to any of you out there keen to get your scripts realised. Amazon’s aim is to find the best film ideas out there and pair them up with producers and studios so they can be realised. Cool eh?!
(Source: facebook.com)
I’ve just upped my game on Facebook and created a proper page for Whitaker Studio. If you want to find out what Paul did talk about when I met him like us on Facebook!
A year ago a small ad agency based in Hechingen, south Germany commissioned me to design them a studio for their fledgling company. Unfortunately their start-up stopped before it started and the studio was never realised, but before it did stop we had just enough time to come up with a design. Inspired by the growth of crystals in a chemistry test tube I designed a studio using shipping containers as the raw material. Fanning out from a central core, the containers created a floor plan that would allow teams to have their own spaces while still allowing all activity to be seen, encouraging cross pollination of ideas. Above ground floor the containers reached up towards the sky, tracking the suns path and channelling light back down into the heart of the building.
I even had enough time to give Michael Poulard, at Gardiner & Theobald, a quick call and he put me in touch with their Berlin office. As luck would have it the quantity surveyor in the Berlin office had just finished working on a job that involved a lot of steel work and he instantly knew who to speak to about sourcing shipping containers from Rotterdam, before being cut and welded by a company in north Germany, before being delivered to site in south Germany. It all started to look quite feasible on their modest budget of £250,000.
But then the start-up stopped. What could have been…
You can find out more details on my website under Projects - Hechingen Studio.
Here’s a portrait from yesterday’s shoot that I quite like.
Psychologists say today is the most depressing day of the year (obviously they haven’t tried supporting England during the Euros), so here’s a photo for anyone suffering in work today.
I’ve been experimenting a little over the last month, enjoying the darker evenings. I’m going to continue with some of the ideas when I get back in November but for the time being here are the results of some of my evening excursions.
