Tall Building Students visit

3 April 2012: The term has ended, and we took the earliest opportunity to have a social gathering. Most of the Tall Building studio made it over to our house in West Bridgford for an extended lunch. As usual, everybody brought a little something to eat, so there was plenty to go around. Some of the students are looking forward to a New York field trip. Everybody is relieved to have got past the end of term crit. There are a few weeks now to recharge batteries, think about dissertation, and reflect on ways to advance the design project.

 Veronica, Phil, Sayali, Rishika, Zuzar, Udayan

DNC, Wezha, Ronssi, Noura, Deepika, Pelin and Alejandro

Tall Buildings Party

11 Dec 2011: We invited the members of the Tall Buildings design studio to a Sunday-lunch party at our house in West Bridgford, everybody bringing a little bit of food. SN-C made some fine desserts. It was rainy, so we didn't have the hoped-for walk on the hill south of the house, but anyway, a good time was had by all. It is certainly a very international grouping, with students from various parts of India and of China, and a few besides (Vietnam, Turkey and..... err.... England!).

Tall Building Students for lunch!

14 Dec '10: We invited the Tall Building students for lunch at Peveril. We couldn't do it earlier because the term has been so busy, and then we have some weeks of snow and icy roads making the house somewhat inaccessible.
It was a 'bring your own', so there was an interesting variety of food, and some students brought flowers - Thankyou!

One of the purposes was to discuss interseasonal storage, heat pumps, photovoltaic and underfloor heating all of which have some relevance to the high rise we are designing for New York.

Field trip to London 1 oct, for tall building students

1 October '10: DNC went to London with Phil and the 25 students of the Tall Buildings module. It rained all day, but the buildings were good, especially the Broadgate tower... we went up to the 17th and 21st floors. In this photo from the Building Centre, there is a giant model of central London, with new buildings and even proposed buildings displayed.
  We started with the Building Centre, moved to the Broadgate tower, lunch at Liverpool St Station, then walked down Bishopsgate past Heron Tower to the Swiss Re and Lloyds and Leadenhall. Then got the tube from Bank to Canary Wharf for the rest of the day.
More about the London trip in postings on the MArch STB website.