Date |
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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. |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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]
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 3DZ—map
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
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Sat
July 11 |
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Sun
July 12 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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—map—map2
[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
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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 |
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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
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15:00 Office Tour/Talk at Allies and Morrison [Jeff
& Bruce]
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18:00
Celebration Dinner at Bacco—map
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 |