Sketching Cutty Sark, Greenwich

Arch 554

British Green Architecture Studio

Summer 2015

Arch 554/502 UK Schedule 2015

Web sites to assist you with logistics (thanks to Heather and Tisha!):
Date  
Tue
June 30
Arrive Edinburgh—orientation meeting at 16:00 (Room TBA)
Pollock Halls (check-in begins 14:00) Booking Reference 245433
18 Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh EH16 5AY getting there info
Bus: from the shops side of Princes Street (stop PH) take the Lothian Buses numbers 30 or 33; £1.50 exact change needed to Royal Commonwealth Pool on Dalkeith Rd.
Walk: from Edinburgh Waverley on North Bridge St., then follow map a brisk 30-minute walk
Wed
July 1
08:45 Arrive at Edinburgh Waverly to purchase tickets (and get your Rail Card, if need be)
Book the 09:18 (no changes–arr. 10:25) train from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Central off-peak day return with railcard £8.30 
Glasgow City Transit Options
(BUS: plus bus unlimited travel/First bus service for £2.15—or £2.00 if you buy the ticket on thetrainline.co.uk
First bus service w/o plusbus £1.20 (4 stops); £2 (more than 4 stops) each ride
Glasgow City bus/fares £1.20–2.40 per ride
SUBWAY: single ride £1.60; return £3; or all day pass £4) 
Note: They are repairing a tunnel on the Edinburgh to Glasgow Queen Street route, so our train, which avoids the tunnel, may be filled and some of you may be sent to the next train. Try the 09:26 (no changes–arr. 10:58) 
11:00 Hunterian Art Gallery—Mackintosh Collection & House 
Free guided 30-minute Mackintosh House tour (12 people max) until16:00
University of Glasgow-map
Subway: From St. Enoch Square to Hillhead [single fare £1.60, all day £4]
Bus: First service 4 or 4A from city centre (Bothwell on Hope Street) to University Avenue 
13:00 Glasgow School of Art sketching session
13:30 Prof. Mark Baines "Glasgow—Water, Stone, & Steel"
and  Mackintosh School of Architecture Tour
Meet at Reid Bldg Entrance: 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6RQ -map
[omiyage—Justin (2)]
15:30 The Lighthouse Museum/Gallery visit (open until 17:00)
11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU
Subway: From Cowcaddens to Buchanan Street or to St. Enoch
Walk: A nice 30-minute walk through town
Thur
July 2
9:30 Scottish Parliament sketching session & group photo
10:00  Enter for Scottish Parliament Tour (10:30-11:30) 
You'll have to go through airport-like security (20 min). -more info
You may sketch and photograph once inside security, but neither is allowed during the tour.
Scottish Parliament is located in the Holyrood area of central Edinburgh at the foot of the Royal Mile, on Horse Wynd, opposite the Palace of Holyrood House. EH99 1SP
30 minute walk on Queen's Drive from Pollock Halls map  
[Alyssa]
15:00  Falkirk Wheel sketching session
15:30  Falkirk Wheel Boat Ride (50 min.) [booked] -map
Visitor Center closes at 17:30
Book the 12:54 train from Edinburgh Waverly to Camelon
(due to engineering works it will arrive at Camelon at about 14:20)
off-peak day return with railcard £6.20
It's a brisk 30-minute walk from the station to the Wheel.
   
Fri
July 3
10:00 RBGE sketching session (meet at East Gate) 
10:30 John Hope Gateway (60 minutes) (closes at 18:00)
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 20A Inverleith Row, EH3 5LR -map
walk to the Salisbury Place Bus Stop on Newington Street (a brisk 10 minutes) -map
then catch the 09:34 bus #8 to the Royal Botanic Garden Stop
 on Inverleith Row (Muirhouse, Stop C) £1.50 exact change
13:00 Discover Edinburgh 
Sat
July 4
Check Out Pollock Halls before 10:30, Depart Edinburgh
Arrive London (you may drop your luggage at Passfield before check-in time)
Tip 1: There's a great Saturday a.m. Farmers' Market at the nearby Brunswick Center. 
Tip 2: Lord Mayor of London Gay Pride Day festivities in Trafalgar Square
Tip 3: GDIF 2015 Greenwich Docklands International Festival 

Check into Passfield Hall after 15:00
16:00 London Orientation w/Justin and Bruce
Passfield Hall Courtyard
Sun
July 5
 
Mon
July 6
10:00 St. Paul's sketching session
10:20 meet on St. Paul's front steps for group photo 
10:30  St. Paul's tour (90 min.) [booked]—map
tube: St. Paul's
[Malachi]
City of London Walking Tour [after St. Paul's—walk in small groups]—map or guide
14:30 Serpentine Pavilion Site Visit—map
tube: Lancaster Gate, Knightsbridge, or Hyde Park Corner, then a 15-minute walk through the park
16:00 Victoria & Albert Museum Architecture Collection Visit—map
(closing time is 17:45)
 a 15-minute walk down Exhibition Road from the Serpentine
Tue
July 7
09:00 Arup Office Visit (3 hours)
13 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BQ
meeting room 1, second floor
 9am Lisa Mullan "1 Finsbury" [Ryan]
10amLynn Goulding "Foresight at Arup" [Ryan]
11am Giulio Antonutto "Olympic Aquatics Center & Kimbell Museum Addition"
[Bruce provides, Ryan presents]
noon Sentiment Cocoon
walk 15 minutes from Passfield Hall -map
13:30 New London Architecture Visit/Sketching 
Exhibits: Brick Works!, Never Mind the Bollards, Public London, & New London Model
The Building Centre, Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
walk 15 minutes to Building Centre-map
15:00 Discover London Experience 1
Choose one of the eleven
17:30 Visit Sir John Soane’s Museum (queue up for candlelight visit 6–9 pm)
13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP
map
tube: Holborn
Wed
July 8
09:30 Imperial College sketching session in Queen's Lawn
10:00  ICRI Sustainable Connected Cities Project w/Duncan Wilson & Julie McCann
Imperial College meet Duncan at the Queen's Tower -map
tube: South Kensington
[Danielle (2)]
13:50 BedZED sketching session (no photos allowed)
14:30  BedZED Tour [booked] [Derek]
BedZED Centre, 24 Helios Roadmap1map2
Wallington, Surrey SM6 7BZ
Book the 13:17 direct train from London Victoria to Hackbridge
anytime day return with railcard £5.70 walk 15 min to BedZED
19:30 Tutorials w/Justin, bring journals and sketch books 
Place to be determined
Thur
July 9
10:30 Laban sketching session
11:00 Laban Dance Centre tour [booked] [Jeff]
Laban Creekside, London SE8 3DZmap
tube: Cutty Sark, LRT (or Island Gardens, LRT plus walk Greenwich Foot Tunnel)
then walk 15 minutes to Laban Dance Centre
13:30 North Greenwich Tour—meet at Cutty Sark Bus Stop C
Sainsbury's, Millennium Village, the O2, Emirates Air
bus: 129 from Cutty Sark Stop C to Sainsbury's at Greenwich Peninsula Stop MH
15:00 Discover London Experience 2
Choose one of the eleven
19:30 Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 
As You Like It
21 New Globe Walk, Bankside SE1 9DT (booked)
Fri
July 10
10:30 Chiswick sketching session (no photos)
11:00 Chiswick Park Tour (photos ok) [Clay (2)]
12:00 Chiswick monthly event—tennis to celebrate Wimbledon (optional)
Building 3, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road W4 5YA
map
tube: Gunnersbury, District Line
14:00 Discover London Experience 3
Choose one of the eleven
Sat
July 11
 
Sun
July 12
 
Mon
July 13
Depart for CAT
10:43 LONDON EUSTON to MACHYNLLETH (CAT) [booked]
departs LONDON EUSTON at 10:43 travel by VIRGIN TRAINS to BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET arrives 12:08
departs BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET at 12:25 travel by ARRIVA TRAINS WALES to  MACHYNLLETH arrives 14:42
 
 
Tue
July 14
Group 1
Post-Disaster/
Post-Conflict Shelter
Design & Building
Workshop

Maurice Mitchell

Group 2
Net-Zero Future 
Climates Design 
Charette

Bruce Haglund &
Frances Hill

Group 3
Oxford Greenbelt Development Masterplan Workshop

Dellé Odeleye

Group 4
Water/Sewage/
Ecosystems
Exploration

Louise Halestrap & John Kearney

thru
Fri
July 17
Sat
July 18
09:00 Final Presentations
Return to London
16:08 MACHYNLLETH to LONDON EUSTON [booked]
departs MACHYNLLETH at 16:08 travel by ARRIVA TRAINS WALES to  BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET arrives 18:30
departs BIRMINGHAM NEW STREEET at 18:50 travel by VIRGIN TRAINS to LONDON EUSTON arrives 20:23
Sun
July 19
 
Mon
July 20
Oxford Visit
Book the 09:21 train from London Paddington to Oxford
and return after 19:00 off-peak day return with railcard £16.35 add PlusBus £2.65
10:30 Oxford University Museum of Natural History sketching session
It's across the street from the Keble College entrance and opens at 10:00
11:30 Keble College Tour—mapmap2
[Kelton]
15-minute walk from rail station
12:30 Lunch suggestion Oxford Covered Market-map
14:30 NW Bicester Eco-Town Project and Sustainable Building Tour, Rajat Gupta
Main reception John Henry Brookes Bldg (JHB)—map
[Malachi]
Oxford Brookes University
bus: City 8 or 9 from stop K4 on High St. east of Turl St to Brookes Uni stop B2
—map 
1.80 single/£2.80 return if you don't have PlusBus)
16:00–Explore Oxford free time
suggested: Tower Ascents and Sundial Trail
Carfax Tower (open until 17:30) or 
University Church of St. Mary the Virgin (open until 18:00)—map
Punting on the River Cherwell from Cherwell Boathouse
Tue
July 21
11:00 Renewable Energy Systems Tour [Alyssa]
Beaufort Court, Egg Farm Lane, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire  WD4 8LR—map
Book the 10:04 train from London Euston to Kings Langley
off-peak day return with railcard £7.60
16:00 BDP office visit -map [Meghan]
16 Brewhouse Yard
London EC1V 4LJ
tube: Farringdon
walk: it's about a mile walk from Euston Station or Passfield (30 min.)
Wed
July 22
09:00 Discover London Experience 4
Choose one of the eleven
14:30 Building Science chat with Bill Bordass—map [Meghan]
 meet just outside 10 Princess Rd.
30-minute walk thru Regent's Park
18:00 Softball w/AHMM (optional)
Regent's Park—map
optional, but popular, post-game pub visit with architects
Thur
July 23
10:00 Victoria Docks sketching session
10:30 The Crystal Building Tour [Derek]
11:15 The Crystal Exhibits Exploration
Western Gateway, London, E16 1GB
directions
tube: Royal Victoria Station, Docklands Light Rail OR
North Greenwich, Jubilee; then Emirates Air Line
note: start early, heavy rush hour transit is slower than normal

14:00 Olympic Park Visit, Sketching, and Analysis

Fri
July 24
07:30 Breakfast Tutorial w/Justin @ Passfield
09:00 Discover London Experience 5
Choose one of the eleven
14:00 Discover London Experience 6
Choose one of the eleven
Sat
July 25
 Suffolk Composting Loo with a View & Solar Shower Raising and Lavenham visit 
with Alison Pooley and Rupert Bentley-Walls 
08:00 London Liverpool Street to Stowmarket [booked]
departs London at 08:00 travel by Abellio Greater Anglia to Ipswich arrives 09:07
departs Ipswich at 09:20 travel by Abellio Greater Anglia to Stowmarket arrives 09:34
Sun
July 26
Suffolk Composting Loo with a View & Solar Shower Raising and Lavenham visit
18:29 Stowmarket to London Liverpool Street [booked]
departs Stowmarket at 18:29 travel by Abellio Greater Anglia to London Liverpool Street arrives 19:55
Mon
July 27
 
Tue
July 28
09:00 Discover London Experience 7
Choose one of the eleven
14:00 Cullinan Studio Office Visit [Kelton]
Foundry, 5 Baldwin Terrace, London, N1 7RU -map
tube: Angel then a 15-minute walk
15:30 Charette Prep w/Alison Kwok, Bruce, & Justin 
Cullinan Studio conference room
18:00 London Eye Flight [booked] [meet at the London Eye queue at ~17:45]
tube: Embankment then a 15-minute walk over Hungerford Golden Jubilee Bridge
Wed
July 29
09:00 Design Charette (all day)
Allies and Morrison 
85 Southwark Street
London SE1 0HX
-map
Team Metropolitan
Alyssa Andersen
Jeff Head
Malachi Payne
Jeff Ive
Cullinan Studio
 5 Baldwin Terrace, 
London, N1 7RU -map
Team Circle
Meghan Ballock
Kelton Berrett
Ryan Erstad
Jessica Faria De Souza
Rivington Street Studio  23 Curtain Road London EC2A 3LT-map 
Team Bakerloo
Danielle Harlan
Derek Oliver
Clay Reiland
Willnara Guimaraes
Thur
July 30
13:00–15:00 Charette Presentations Allies and Morrison, 
85 Southwark St, London SE1 0HX) -map
15:00 Office Tour/Talk at Allies and Morrison [Jeff & Bruce]
18:00 Celebration Dinner at Baccomap
25 Red Lion Street, London, WC1R 4PS
Fri
July 31
10:30 Kew Botanic Gardens—map 1 & 2
Meet just inside Victoria Gate for Group Photo
10:40 Royal Botanic Gardens Kew exploration [booked]
Glass houses close at 17:30
Must see list—Palm House, Water Lily House, Alpine House, Sackler Crossing, Treetop Walkway, L'Orangerie (café), Princess of Wales House, Marianne North Gallery, Minka House, and Badger Sett (note: impossible to see all in one day!)
tube: Kew Gardens, District Line or 
Overground: Euston Station to Willesden Junction to Kew Gardens
Sat
Aug 1
Check out of Passfield Hall before 11:00
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