JIMMY'S COFFEE 107 Portland Street (416) 901-2289 jimmyscoffee.posterous.com Start your day at this charming spot that opened in December in the shell of a dilapidated brick house.
While Wilkinson Eyre's approach in Battersea is one of conscious hi-tech contrast, Astley shows how a new tectonic language can be cleverly stitched into a shell of ravaged brick, in a way that both preserves the ruin's integrity and breathes new life into the spaces.
The authorities of the City of Montevideo decided to replace the 45 years old metallic acoustic shell by a new shell of reinforced brick and requested our office to project a shell of about 600 m2, which should cover the stage of the theatre and should fit the existing colourful open tribune.
Originally, Ritchie included a mock-up on the top of his post that resembled an iPhone with a golden shell akin to a brick of gold bullion.
Visitors to the Catherine Palace today see photographs of the time: The Golden Corridor as a tumbled shell of bare brick and charred timbers, its ruined floors adrift with snow.
Today, the old hospital is just a dilapidated shell of a six-story, red-brick building.
A breeze whips through the shell of the brick building, carrying the faint smell of burned rubber across the block.
Built in, through and around the grandiloquent brick shell of a 1950s grain store, Baltic is something new in this country.
As part of a second phase of work, Assemble has imagined a spectacular winter garden within the empty brick shell of a gutted house – an idea that might form part of their installation for the Turner show at the Tramway in Glasgow later this year.
A second phase of work, planned for the next street along, imagines a spectacular winter garden within the empty brick shell of a gutted house, as well as a new terrace to complete the other side of the street – which was bulldozed to make way for a plan that failed to materialise.
