Architecture Social Show: Models, Yachts, and Gaming Nights!

0058 - The Architecture Social Show on the Second Leg of Feb
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Introduction and Technical Difficulties
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Stephen Drew: Oh, I was on mute. 17, 16 seconds. So was I. I was speaking. We need new music next week. What do you think that is? Snow going upwards? I don't understand. So that's what happens in Australia when it snows, it goes upwards because it's on the bottom of the world. I don't think that's true.

Weekly Catch-Up and Show Introduction
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Stephen Drew: And hello, everyone.

Stephen Drew: Hello. Blast of the snow. The snow is going. I've enjoyed the snow. How is everyone? Have you had a good week? I hope everyone's had a good week. Will, did you have a good

Will Ridgway: week? I had a good week as well. I saw the snow. I didn't go out on it. I just watched it from my window in the warmth of my house. But it was very [00:01:00] nice.

Stephen Drew: Do you know what?

Architecture Social Community Highlights
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Stephen Drew: I, so everyone that's here, welcome to the Architecture Social show. I've upped the resolution to 1080p so you can see my awful paws and everything. But every now and then, Will, it seems like your mouth and your sound is a bit delayed. So that's going to, That's going to be interesting.

Stephen Drew: Other than that, here we go. It's been an interesting week. I think there's been quite busy in terms of architecture. It's still going strong. There's still strong. It's not as bad as before. So how is everyone feeling? Do drop us a comment. This is the show where at one o'clock you grab your sandwiches and you can talk to me and Will and join in with the.

Stephen Drew: The community, hello, we're on YouTube, we're on LinkedIn, let's go. As part of the Architecture Social show, I can't even say my own name of my own show well.

Will Ridgway: Don't worry. Hopefully it's not a a, hopefully it doesn't. [00:02:00] I can't talk even now.

Stephen Drew: Okay, give us five more minutes, people, before you tune out, give us a show.

Stephen Drew: All right. Okay. So a part of the Architecture Social show is that we look at all the awesome stuff that's happened within the Architecture Social community during the week. This can be stuff that we posted because we think it would be cool during the show to show during the show. And as well as that stuff that the community are posted as well.

Model Making Discussion
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Stephen Drew: So before we kick off with the big news, one of the cool things I thought we've just set is set up a model making topic. So if you're in the Architecture Social, you can join them. Dr. Lee. Doc, the doctor is in the house. All right, Dr. Liz, there's about 50 cents over here, isn't there? I've got the soundtrack for that actually.

Stephen Drew: So can you we'll see if it works, but here we go. Should we, can you hear me now? Does it work? No. No,

Will Ridgway: I can't hear you. You'll probably get too much voice off YouTube

Stephen Drew: as well, by the way. We'll keep going. Maybe it'll kick in. Here we go. I wanted to show [00:03:00] first Dr. Liz in the house. Let's see.

Stephen Drew: This is a really cool YouTube channel that I found. Okay, hopefully that works now. This is how you make a YouTube model. Oh, one sec. I've got a sound coming out of my speaker. What do you think, Will? Do you like it?

Will Ridgway: I think I do. I do like it. I always I love looking at models. I remember when we went to we went to what was the university?

Will Ridgway: You went there? What was the when we last two years ago, we went to the student fair at at your old at your old university of Westminster. That was it, University of Westminster. Yeah, I just remember going through there and just seeing all those models there. And it was really fascinating and it's something that I really do like in architecture.

Will Ridgway: Yeah.

Will Ridgway: I don't see it as often, unfortunately, as you get older. Go for your career. It's just really interesting.

Stephen Drew: Do you know what though? I saw a really good post on on Instagram of Alice and Morrison. They had an [00:04:00] amazing architectural model. So I'll try and post that in the end. But what do you think?

Stephen Drew: What do you think everyone? Do you think the art of model making is lost? Let's see. Will, can you see how our viewer count has gone completely down while I was fixing my sound? What were you talking about? You're going to keep people engaged, Will. I'm sorry. Wake up, Will.

Will Ridgway: I'm sorry. But yeah yeah, sorry.

Stephen Drew: I'm joking. You're fine. It's Wednesday, guys. That's all I enjoy. What do you think? Is model making lost? Do you think model making is lost? Do you think people make enough models anymore? It's quite hard to get the materials from models actually at the moment, because it's the pandemic, isn't it? But look at this.

Stephen Drew: So look, he's actually getting a little straw. He's getting a bowl. He's making a concrete bed and everything. This is some serious The attention to detail is amazing. I know. This is where it goes wrong for me. It's because I have Shrek fingers. So I destroy every model that [00:05:00] I've done. So it's not the ideal thing here.

Stephen Drew: Let's see what Dr. Liz is saying. I know someone whose job is was sticking the fingers onto Nolan Foster's 3D work. In the model studio. Yeah. Yeah. Model making is really expensive. I remember moving an architectural model at EPR Architects in the back of a van to a planning committee to try and get planning permission.

Stephen Drew: And the model was like 300, 000 pounds. I think I've told you the story because at the time me and my friend were, we popped into McDonald's and we went over the speed bumps and actually then they knocked a bit like a part of this. 100, 000 pound model off because I went for a Big Mac and and luckily the model maker, I was so embarrassed and I was like, I'm so sorry.

Stephen Drew: And the model maker was like, don't worry about it. This happens all the time. And he had a little bit of fix it glue, Will, on site in his hands and he just sorted it out. Chris Castle at EPR, if you're listening, I am really sorry about that, but we still got planning permission for the Ram [00:06:00] Brewery.

Stephen Drew: Peace out. Success. Success indeed. And it was a, and it was a few beautiful burgers. I think what I, at the time, because I was a part two, I didn't have as much money back then. I think what I didn't, I, I tell a lie, I didn't get a Big Mac. I think I got three cheeseburgers off the savers menu. Yeah, you can see why I struggle with my weight sometimes.

Stephen Drew: So moving, I can see why you have

Will Ridgway: to strike fingers. That was why you can do model making. It's because you kept popping over to McDonald's all the time.

Stephen Drew: Yeah maybe. Here we go. Andrea says, I believe it's time consuming and smaller practices can't really afford it. Time is money. It's true. And also another thing is you don't want to waste the materials.

Stephen Drew: If you make a mistake it costs money. Do you know what I mean? It's it's a bit of a difficult one. Okay. Moving swiftly on. If you're not a member of the Architecture Social, You can join up to the Architecture Social. And I think if you type in if you, here we go, if you type on [00:07:00] architecturesocial.

Stephen Drew: com, you can join and post your own content. This is the place for you to post content. If you post some stuff in there and you tag in me or Will, we will show it on the next live stream and we can demonstrate with the whole wide world, the stuff you're doing. This can be a project for an architectural practice it can be the beautiful model that you're making, or it can be something else.

Stephen Drew: So let's have a look at one or two of the architectural projects. So there's a section here for architectural projects as well. So look at this, we've got so much stuff. Last week we did this one as well, Will. So we've got some here. Now this go, I said, I wouldn't play this one, but there we go. We'll play it.

Amazon's 400 Million Pound Yacht
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Stephen Drew: What does everyone think about Amazon? So look at this, right? So I probably paid for a wing on this whole boat with the amount of Prime Nows and Amazon Primes I do, but Jeff Bezos, he has. A 400 million pound yacht. It's big, it's bold. Look at him [00:08:00] smiling. Jeff. Yeah, because he's got a 400 million pound yacht.

Stephen Drew: Actually, Jeff, on that note, I ordered a clock and it came wrong today. So while you're on that boat knocking around, my clock's got a problem. Jeff, get your priorities right. You know what's interesting though, while we're talking about him, I joke and have a laugh, but there is quite an interesting angle to architecture where you've got actually yacht designers and it's actually a huge thing and there's a few companies that we've worked with before such as SMC Design and I mean it's like a super intricate building or in this case it's like a monolith.

Stephen Drew: Look, look at Jeff is just rocking in to some country and he's just put the whole GDP value up for the roof, Will, by his, by him being in the port. Gordon Ramsay's knocking around on the second floor. A bit of light there, just so you know the water's still there, because you can't feel it rocking, probably.

Stephen Drew: No, that's insane. Imagine being on it and just owning that yacht. It's insane. I know, I [00:09:00] feel like we've seen the same clip again and then we'll skip it off. But what does everyone think about marine architecture? Is that something you'd like to do? If it is, there are a few architectural companies out there.

Stephen Drew: So we got the project section and we're going to talk about that a bit later. Okay. Now I'm going to move swiftly on. Cause I think we posted a few, we've got some events and we're going to talk about it later and we've got industry news. Oh, I've got, I think there's beeping outside, so I've shut that here.

Stephen Drew: So we've got a few that we didn't do last week, and let's just jump in with the Boston Dynamic Dog.

Boston Dynamics' Spot the Robot Dog
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Stephen Drew: So this was your find, Will. And we can see now our friendly neighborhood robot, Spot. Aww. He's got an arm. He has got an arm. Now

Will Ridgway: he can hold

Stephen Drew: your coffee as you work at Foster Partners. Oh, really? Oh, he can hold Yeah, there you go.

Stephen Drew: That's true, because Fosters and Partners, they've developed this, haven't they? So you can have them knocking around. That would be brilliant in the office, isn't it? Just having, you've got Fosters and then everyone's working at their desks [00:10:00] and then Spot comes along and he's Coffee. I need my robot voices.

Stephen Drew: Let me see, have I got my robot voices here? There you go, that's a robot voice. This is not, this is a It's

Stephen Drew: watching like a coffee with the drawings. This is the nerdy mode, isn't it? So we need like a, we need some robot voice. I got a robot voice. No, that doesn't really up me. I can't open the door, Will.

Stephen Drew: I can't open the door. Let me in. Here we go, a little dance. There we go. It's a whole new energy to opening up this lever. Surprise! I hear the sound recording works again, doesn't it?

Will Ridgway: Yeah. That's good. I tell you, it's scary the amount of things you can now do with just having a hand. It just opens up so many possibilities.

Will Ridgway: I just hope it doesn't go to waste.

Stephen Drew: Oh no. Oh, he's not doing very well on this. He's [00:11:00] getting there. Don't mess the tree up, Spunk. Oh, we've got a few comments in. Sorry guys, I was enjoying the robots a little bit too much. No, I know, Nora actually won the Architecture book last week. No, I'm a bit guilty. I haven't sent it to you yet.

Stephen Drew: So we do have competitions in the Architecture Social. Nora won the last book. I will send it to you. I am being a little bit slow, this is the truth. Sorry, no, I will send that today. Love, love this. Very satisfying to look at. However, for me, I prefer a white, simple phone, MatterK that shows the space more than anything else.

Stephen Drew: Okay. Fair enough. Fair point. I think that's to do with the videos before. Okay, let's see. I'm only interested in Spot the dog, if Spot can do the iron in. He probably can,

Will Ridgway: I'm not very

Stephen Drew: well though. That's an expensive iron in the system. Yeah, you posted this one last week. Let's have a little look at this.

Stephen Drew: So what is this? So this is, we're really good doing architecture in the broad sense, and we've actually got a bit of a, [00:12:00] we've got a bit of a theme popping up. We've got like It's nautical vibe. We've got we've got transport and architecture. So now we're going back to the history channel, it seems.

Will Ridgway: We are.

Restoration of D-Day Landing Craft
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Will Ridgway: This one I had to wrap my hit my memory a little bit to try and remember exactly what it was, but it's off the top of my head. It was basically one of the landing crafts used on D Day. It was being restored by some architects. Now, I don't think this particular video shows the architects restoring it, but it gives you a sort of background of the tank, the landing craft tank itself.

Will Ridgway: But essentially, I'm trying to think who would Let's see if I it was Pritchard Architecture. So Pritchard Architecture are involved with the restoration of this tank to basically create a viewing a platform. So like a tentative, almost like an exhibit so that people can come in, have a look for, and they're just involved with the restoration of it.

Will Ridgway: And I thought it was quite interesting because it's different to a lot of the architecture that we cover. We didn't do a lot of. [00:13:00] Restorations and particularly for a landing craft tank used on D Day. It's quite unique in that sense. So I think that happened. I think it's the restoration started at some point last year.

Will Ridgway: I'm not entirely sure. But yeah just doing this based on memory. I think I put a little bit of stuff on the on the social. Yeah, I think I've pretty much summed it up, to be honest.

Stephen Drew: Amazing. You can check this out. I'm going to skip a little bit ahead, but you can see here at the bottom, all this stuff happening and look, they're building you out.

Stephen Drew: Check out Will's restoration video. You can find that on the Architecture Social as well. While we've been talking, I've had a few more people talk about models. In the audience. So I'm going to play one more model making video of this cool. So we did the pool last time, didn't we? So look at this guy.

Stephen Drew: He did, he does this. So this is a really interesting channel. So I'm going to bring it up here. It's called MC Kook. Check them out on YouTube. This guy is the master. While we're doing that Quickly, I want to bring up Lauren's comment. Hi, Lauren. [00:14:00] Welcome to the Architecture Social. And she thinks that making this more than producing the final results in miniature, it's a tool to design within the moment.

Stephen Drew: That's true, because while you're making this, you're getting a bit of feedback. You're thinking, is this good? Is it, how does it look in three dimensions? And then taking a picture. And it's a really good design tool. For me, I've always. preferred doing 3D modeling. I am not a very patient person, as Will knows, unfortunately.

Stephen Drew: And when you, with model making, you've got to be really patient. And I would give up in for, in, in favor. I'd be like, it's much better. We can do it in 3D, I'm not crashing anything and I'm not have to wait around with the 3D printer, but there is a real art to having something physical.

Stephen Drew: And yeah, I really like it. I do respect a really good 3D model. So how, while we're here, how is everyone's week? Drop us a comment, let us know how you're doing. Just a little quick roundup while you're here. We are the Architecture Social [00:15:00] Show and you can join the community. All these videos are within the Architecture Social.

Stephen Drew: If you've not joined, we're now about 3, 500 people. Get in there because then I can showcase your awesome work in the community. So here you go. Look at this. We'll do a little bit more because I find this is really relaxing. Oh, that's really cool. Satisfying the peeling back. And look at that. It is,

Will Ridgway: It makes it look so easy as well.

Will Ridgway: And yeah, it's not. Yeah,

Stephen Drew: it's really not. And I like everything else. Practice comes with perfect. You just need, it's a bit like an art form, isn't it? You get used to it, you get used to the materiality. Unlike in real life, you need to understand the different materiality of things. How do you emulate glass?

Stephen Drew: Is it with some plastic or, it's like, or is it really glass? I think it's emulates glass, this is the kind of art form in itself. And it'd be really interesting to know, people are doing physical models. Where are they right now in the pandemic? Are they working at home?

Stephen Drew: Can you imagine being the wife of a model maker right [00:16:00] now? Is your kitchen going to be taken over? Babe, I can't live in these conditions. Babe, I'll only need to use the oven a bit longer. I promise. As soon as the tiles are out, I'll be ready. Yeah, that would be an interesting that would be an interesting scenario.

Stephen Drew: Look at this. Getting the white.

Will Ridgway: I could honestly just watch this for the rest of the stream. Do you reckon

Stephen Drew: he's going to peel the tiles in a second? That would be interesting. That satisfies me. I love peeling and on YouTube, you've got the peeling and popping thing. I don't quite watch popping videos, but I do have, there is a satisfaction in like seeing this stuff being made.

Stephen Drew: This is a really cool channel as well. I don't know the person, but you can check out MC Cook and you can basically enjoy the model making. I think we're going to have to do a bit more model making on the show. This is perfect, isn't it?

Will Ridgway: Yeah, I really enjoy it as well. Do you know what? It's a bit like Yeah, he's actually does door hinges as well.

Stephen Drew: Yeah! A working door in the model. We [00:17:00] weren't in my models, I'll tell you that right now, it would have been like a biro with black saying door on some foam with some wishful thinking, but use your

Will Ridgway: imagination, I would draw a door on a piece of paper, bend, make a crease in it as the hinge and stick it to the side, that would be my door.

Stephen Drew: Oh my gosh, I don't know, I know, it's absolutely, it's It's an art form. My doors are not that good. Look at these trees. Yeah, you're right. We'll embellish this for a moment because it's really fascinating, isn't it? Look at these trees! Alright, I've lost interest already by now. As in, I love watching it, but imagine doing that.

Stephen Drew: I can't do that. I told you, in the oven, model makers are home.

Will Ridgway: I wasn't being crazy. His wife comes through, his wife comes through and be like, Ooh, that smells good, what's for dinner? And he's Oh, it's just, it's

Stephen Drew: just a meat salad. Babe, let, yeah let the oven air because I've had plastic in there and it's toxic.

Stephen Drew: Oh, okay. Do you know what I mean? Look at [00:18:00] this. Oh, this is too much detail right now. Yes,

Will Ridgway: too

Stephen Drew: much detail. It's amazing. I would not have the patience for it at all. I agree. What do you guys think in the comment in the crowd? Drop a comment and let us know your thoughts. This is absolutely beautiful.

Stephen Drew: We could look at this all day, my friend, but we're going to move swiftly on. And let's see what else is on the Architecture Social.

Architecture Social Events and Gaming Night
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Stephen Drew: Oh, I should probably say I've updated the events page. So you've got the events page, which is on in the Architecture Social. And we'll go through this as well now. And I've updated the outside of the website so people can see what's going on as well.

Stephen Drew: And I will link that. I'll do that in a second. So you can see live that we're live right now. A bit of Inception as well. Should I get the tunnel up again? No. No. In the comments say if I should get the tunnel up or not, but if anyone hasn't seen that, you can look at last week where we had a bit of a giggle.

Stephen Drew: So today we're going to be doing an event Will, which you can attend in your underwear, and you can even attend naked, actually, because it's an audio [00:19:00] only event. I have please, if you are naked, do it. Do not tell me while you're there, but this me and Jason Boyle are presenting the architecture after hours, where we talk about mental health with a bit of a positive uplifting thing on the clubhouse.

Stephen Drew: And so clubhouse is this new app and I was like, Oh my gosh, I'm going to have to get an Apple because I've got a Samsung and all this stuff, and it's a bit of fuss and it's another app, but it was really quite interesting and the kind of the concept of it. is that it's in the moment. It's talking like me and you are now, except there's a camera not on us and we're not live and it's not recorded.

Stephen Drew: So it's got a little bit of that. As the name says, a bit of a clubhouse feel. So I will be there and I'm just saying now a little hint, maybe or maybe I don't have my sound effect board and all these crazy noises that I can play during it, which no one, there's no one does. And I'm just going to, it might, maybe I alienate the audience, but you know what?

Stephen Drew: Because I

Will Ridgway: have a video there, it sounds like you're with people in an environment and it sounds like you're breaking lockdown rules, which [00:20:00] you don't want, you don't want the police knocking at your door.

Stephen Drew: You don't want the police knocking at the door? I've actually got a sound effect for the police knocking at the door.

Stephen Drew: Let me go like this, here you go. Architecture

Stephen Drew: Model, put it down. Step away from the Architecture Model. Okay, so jumping straight on, the other thing that I wanted to talk about is in the Architecture Social, we're doing gaming night! Woo! So I'm a bit biased because I'm a bit of a geek, and we've set up this area which is looking a little bit blank at the moment, but we're going to build it out, so Tomorrow we're going to be playing Among Us.

Stephen Drew: It's a cheap game. It's 4 on Steam. You can run it on your PC, your, your grandmother's PC or anything because it really doesn't require much CPU or GPU or anything. So do join us.

Join the Architecture Social Group
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Stephen Drew: Now, Dr. Liz wants the tunnel effect. We'll, I'll do it at the end, Dr. Liz. If you stay with us till the end, we will get the tunnel going.

Stephen Drew: But join us. in the Architecture Social group. I was going to call it like level [00:21:00] editors because architecture will, but I've called it level up. Do you think, do you? Yeah. Level up is pretty cool, isn't it? I thought, and also level up. We've got architecture, like levels in buildings and.

Will Ridgway: Yeah,

Stephen Drew: yeah, so you can join us tomorrow and among us and in here you've got discord and all this stuff So just setting it up, but that is a space I want to build.

MadCon Events and Dungeons & Dragons
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Stephen Drew: I have a really important event. I have a really important event before we go well is Next we've got the MadCon events Which I touched upon last week and after the MadCon, look how many of there are, it's absolutely crazy. We have got A journey I got a journey interrupted.

Stephen Drew: Okay. Oh, I can put on my sound effects. Okay. So how do I get on?

Stephen Drew: Okay. So a journey interrupted. Enter a world of pervasive magic, because this is the Dungeons and Dragons group in architecture. So enter a world of pervasive magic. A world where dragons roam the skies and gods walk [00:22:00] among the earth. Sail the silver sea.

Stephen Drew: And climb the pious peak, party with dwarfs and argue with gnomes, and dance with elves. Elves. Welcome to Palo

Stephen Drew: Alto. And you're going to be on Zoom with me, and it'll be the first one, and I'll be like how do you chuck a dice? How do you chuck a dice? So join me and the Architecture Social group, and you can find in the Architecture Social, we have Dungeons and, Dungeons, Architects, and Dragons.

Stephen Drew: And I might or might not be a half oak. Got

Stephen Drew: my, I've got my half oak voice ready? Who dare into my, you think will

Will Ridgway: sound good? I think that's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. As long as you get that character mate. As long as a character. Character.

Stephen Drew: Okay. Moving swiftly back onto, [00:23:00] moving back onto architecture. Okay, I hope everyone's having a bit of fun. You've got to have a bit of a laugh, haven't you?

Badass Projects of the Week
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Stephen Drew: Should we do the Badass Projects of the Week, Will? Should we jump onto that? Yeah, we can do. What are

Will Ridgway: the Badass Projects of the Week?

Stephen Drew: We will work it out.

Stephen Drew: We will work it out together now, my friend. Okay. So I've been adding a few architectural projects on the Architecture Social. So I'm going to drive this for now, Will. Oh, you've had an easy ride this week, haven't you? Because I've taken over. I need to learn the delegate more. So just loading up. So it's going to take a little bit longer because I'm logged in as the admin.

Stephen Drew: Come on website. Here we go.

Showcasing Architectural Projects
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Stephen Drew: So you can see it, you can see all my admin stuff at the top, but basically I've been uploading projects there, so if you are an architectural practice and you want to showcase your work, send it across, and new ones which we haven't talked about, okay, so I'm going to load them all up, we did this one last week because it has Dr.

Stephen Drew: Liz's favorite orange bowl. We haven't done loft living. I'd like to do a loft living because they're [00:24:00] a London architectural practice, but they're a small company and they're doing really well. So Dr. Liz, let me off. I know it's London, it's they're, a nice architectural practice which I'm sure you will support as the kind person that you are.

Stephen Drew: So in number one, we've got B Residence. So let's do that one first. Okay, let's load up. So this is contender number one, which is in Australia. We've got an Australian building. I want to do an Australian accent, but I'm so bad at them. I can't. Can you do an Australian

Will Ridgway: accent? No, I can't do it. I can't do it in an Australian accent at all.

Will Ridgway: You have to get a soundboard that can try and change that for you.

Stephen Drew: Yeah. Yeah, no one's a fan. Dr. Liz is still talking, but you've got to be there, Dr. Liz, and you will see what I am, because you're going to be there as well as the Welsh wizard, I'm hoping, you know? Dr. Liz is in Wales. She might not be born in Wales, but she's, as far as I'm concerned, as a Welsh man, she's Welsh, right?

Stephen Drew: So she's part of the gang. And Dr. Liz, you do stay to the end and [00:25:00] I will do the tunnel. So jumping on board, you can see the B Residence. What do you think? Is this a kitchen that you would like? I quite like these finishes here. These little baubles does look quite nice to me. Absolutely Dr. Liz, we've got to support the small practices.

Stephen Drew: Dr. Liz, I need to get your architectural practice on the Architecture Social as well. Let's get architectural matters on there. Okay, so I'm going to jump to the next page. Okay. Do you want to read it out, Will, while we're here? Yeah,

Will Ridgway: I did have it up, yeah.

Stephen Drew: Okay, so is there a little bit of context in the meantime we talk about?

Stephen Drew: Go on.

Will Ridgway: Reflecting its Gordon Park locality, Bee Residence involves additions and alterations to an existing Queenslander home with a timeless contemporary finish. The client's brief was to create a home which may maintain the integrity of the original structure with relaxed modern Functionality.

Will Ridgway: Yeah. Nice. Yeah. This time is, yeah, it's nice. Basically , , [00:26:00] I like,

Stephen Drew: I like the ceiling. I like these little details here. And look at this. I

Will Ridgway: like the bathroom.

Stephen Drew: I like the bathroom. There's no fruit bowl, Dr Liz, but you've got a nice big, bathroom bowl, okay? Can't have it all, Dr Liz. Can't have it all.

Stephen Drew: I like this mirror. I think it's quite it's quite Minimalistic but classy. I like it. Yeah.

Will Ridgway: Yeah, I like this. I like that. I it is marble. We

Stephen Drew: got bowls everywhere, haven't we? We've got bowls of ramen. But I think this is nice. What I like is the scale is not too big. And this is the kind of projects I want to do in the Architecture Social.

Stephen Drew: Dr. Liz after your advice, I've gone global. So now this was Australia.

Global Architectural Practices
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Stephen Drew: Okay, so we've, I've gone from everything in London to now we're international. So we're going back to London. Okay, so this is a medium sized architectural practice. They post one or two things on the Architectural Social. Bradley Van de Straten, I hope I got that right.

Stephen Drew: [00:27:00] So they're a nice architectural practice and they've been really good in publishing work and I've been trying to post it. And so this is the kind of thing that I would love to live in in London. So everyone that if you want to help me live in a place like this, contact Mick McDonald and Company and I can help find you jobs and sign up to the Architecture Social and Autodesk if you're listening, please sponsor this amazing community that we've built so that I can live in a house like this.

Stephen Drew: Okay. Kind of cool, isn't it? Dr. Liz, we haven't got a fruit bowl, but we've got a melon bowl. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it's quite, we've got lights. There you go. The human shadow can write, Dr. Liz. I just told Dr. Liz I don't speak Welsh. Okay, so mine, I've got no clue, but yeah, you are definitely an honourable Welsh person.

Stephen Drew: I am very proud that you care about Wales. We need people that care about the country, different regions, it's very important. It can't be London centric. The [00:28:00] reason I do talk about London though, is because I am here and I'd like, especially Lewisham. Council, if you're listening, can you fix Lewisham?

Stephen Drew: That'd be great. Just fix it. That's my suggestion. Just fix it. Okay. It's been up and coming for eight years. Okay. I'm fed up of it. Let's move on. What do you think of these lights, Will?

Will Ridgway: Yeah, I I quite like them. Yeah, I like them

Stephen Drew: because they're different. Ooh, I'm

Will Ridgway: not

Stephen Drew: quite sure what colour they are.

Stephen Drew: So yeah, I like it. Does everyone enjoy the the yellow? I was going to say the London then. Look at this. This is bomb. This is, I like this though. Yeah, I like that. And from my t shirts and oh, I've got something to show you one second while we're here. Cause my fashion sense, it was well, it was not subtle except now, but look what I've got.

Stephen Drew: So we're wearing for the next live stream. I've got some architecture social merch. Look well. Amazing. Oh, I can't hear you. Do you like it? Yeah. Yeah, [00:29:00] so I've got that. That looks amazing, Steve. It does look cool, doesn't it? I've got to test out the quality. I like to say it's size medium. I put a bit of weight on that, mate.

Stephen Drew: It's upper end of medium, begins with L. And then I go, one sec Will, look, I got an Architecture Social hat. I don't suit hats, but there you go. Do you like it? That's

Will Ridgway: the type of work we've got at the moment as well.

Stephen Drew: Yeah, and look oh my gosh, my ear's out because I'm trying to get the microphone in.

Stephen Drew: Sorry. Look at me, I look like I'm working the Docklands right now. He's over there, Governor! And then you can see, on the back, I've got an Architecture Social poster. Not poster, it's framed artwork. That one's about 35, 40. And then I'm going to do ones this size, which cost 80. And this is a Stephen Drew artwork, which I'm going to put on the Architecture Social.

Stephen Drew: I don't know if I'll sell any, but if I make one, that'd be nice, wouldn't it? I did that that project was runner up [00:30:00] in the Arendt artwork. Competition 2012, because I'm old. Okay. So there you go. Bit of art history there. Moving on. Oh, my hair's all flustered now, Will. So we've got, what does everyone think at this?

Stephen Drew: Who decides the color, built in scheme, client or architect? Good question. I think maybe they're a trendy architectural practice. I imagine the people that sign up to them will want these, boho, chic. So vibe to it. There you go. It's interesting, isn't it? So that's number two.

Stephen Drew: So we've got the Australian house. We've got Hoxton house and here's the other one. So that's the B residence. I'm just going through things here. And the other one I've got is actually in Toronto, Canada.

Emily's House and Community Engagement
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Stephen Drew: So we've gone really global here. Let's throw this one up. So this is called Emily's house when it loads up.

Stephen Drew: Here we go. Sorry guys, I'm logged in as an admin, so it takes a bit longer than the actual website. Emily's house. [00:31:00] Do you know what I quite like about this? In theory, it'd be an easier and fairer fight, I say fight, a battle for the badass building if they were in the same location. But I do enjoy seeing different types of architecture.

Stephen Drew: Different local, like we were in Melbourne and now American architecture and British architecture as well. It's really interesting to see that kind of stuff. So here we go. I look at this, I'm really, I'm tempted to fly over to Canada because I've, I quite liked this project, Emily's House. Will, do you have the words there while I'm going through it?

Stephen Drew: And kind of

Will Ridgway: just putting it up now. So Emily House is by Studio JCI I, or L, I can't pronounce it. Basically, it's a modern multi generational home in north of Toronto. In a residential neighbourhood of North York, this 3, 500 square foot multi generational home exemplifies harmonious co living design.

Will Ridgway: The house seamlessly integrates a diverse set of individual and collective desire. [00:32:00] Desires and support of three generations at different stages of their lives. So it encompasses of those three generations, it appeases every single one of them. So if you're old, maybe a little bit less mobile, it should help with that.

Will Ridgway: If you're a child, want to do entertainment, it should also satisfy that. So it's great for retired couples adult children and parents as well.

Stephen Drew: Retired couples? I want to live there now. You should see my flat right now. Honestly, look at this. That is an architecture book collection. Oh, no. Okay, Dr. Liz, look away.

Stephen Drew: I've got to click through frantically to get where I go back. There we go. That is a cool bookshelf. I'm trying to give all my books away, though. On the Architecture Social, we do a we do a competition every month where I give away a book, and it's basically my book collection. Yeah. I don't have any books anymore.

Stephen Drew: That's just

Will Ridgway: your book

Stephen Drew: collection, yeah. You need that bookcase to hold them for the moment. I used to collect video games, remember, because they were physical objects, and now it's all online, isn't it? And we're moving to a Kindle. Kindle and online [00:33:00] world, so we'll see, but I quite like it. Who is Emily?

Stephen Drew: Dr. Liz says, I'm guessing it's this lady coming down the stairs up and she's gone. So there you go. She was here and she's gone. And so what I'm doing right now for anyone that's not aware, I want to explain the concept of what I'm doing in the architecture social. And Dr. Valais, because you're such a really good supporter, this is going to be really helpful.

Stephen Drew: You can submit your work on the Architecture Social, and then it will come up on the pro, on the outside website as well. And what I'm doing is I've got this button here, so I'm trying to build this way where people can talk about projects and showcase their projects. We're not quite there yet, but it's the concept.

Stephen Drew: So you can see this on the architecture website. You can look at it. It will be on Google. You will get SEO value if you're in architectural practice, and you can show all the details of your project. You can do what you want, you can say where it is, and you can build up an online presence. Yeah, so [00:34:00] now you were saying StudioJCI, sorry, it's a bit slow, because we're logging in.

Stephen Drew: But you can see when you click it up, I'll pause this for now, but you can get all the details of the architecture practice as well. And then if you like the project, you can click this button, discuss, and that will then take you inside the Architecture Social where I've linked the project. And then you can say who is Emily?

Stephen Drew: At Dr. Liz. Do you get what I mean? So you can have a nice conversation and you can talk about the work. We're at early stages because the community's new, but how cool would that be if everyone could talk about and have their own opinion? And then if I get the StudioJCI in there you could be like, in the future, I'd like them to post their own work and you'd go Hi there, I'm really interested, and I would like to apply for a job there.

Stephen Drew: Directly talking to the places, this is the future. This is the future. So that's what I'm trying to build. We're getting there one day at a time. I have a quick news while we're here, because we're getting to [00:35:00] the end. Will, do you have anything in particular that you want to say?

Will Ridgway: First of all who's our Badass Building of the Week winner?

Stephen Drew: Ah, oh yeah, good point, because let's go back to Before we move on anyway. Let's vote. So was it Emily's house? Oh, I can do it for a year actually, because I post them. So was it, so the ones we talked about, was it? Emily's house. I'm gonna vote. I like Emily's house, so I'm voting for that one. Was it Jeff Bezos?

Stephen Drew: No, Jeff, you do not get to be in here because you're stinking rich. Was it the Bee Residence? There we go. Oh, I can change the view as well in the Architecture Social. Here we go. So was it Emily's house? Or was, no, not you, Jeff. Fed up of you. We're gonna do your reading room next week, Will. Was it with the Bee Residence?

Stephen Drew: Or was it Ooh, Dr. Liz has posted quite a few projects. This is what's good about being in social. Or was it the Hoxton House? I quite like the Hoxton House, but I think [00:36:00] I like the flat in I like the house I like Emily's house because it's a house. Now Hoxton house is going to be a great party pad in London.

Stephen Drew: What do you think, everyone? I'm on the same wavelength

Will Ridgway: as you, Steve. I'm on the same wavelength as you. I think my favourite is the Emily's house as well. I like, I just I don't know, it looks more homely, I think, whereas the others look just a bit more, look

Stephen Drew: fun, if that makes sense.

Stephen Drew: Absolutely. I, until I, because we, I'm, there's been a delay in the comments, and Dr. Liz has said no fruit bowl twice, so I don't know whether Or not, it's working, or what's going on. Until I hear anything the unofficial winner, I think, unless anyone challenges us from the audience, is looking like it's Emily's house.

Stephen Drew: So we'll wait for the comments today to come in on that. But while we're here, what else can we talk about? We covered events, we covered Dungeons Dragons, we talked about architectural model making Why not while we're here we can so we've got a vote to do the [00:37:00] tunnel again, but I Posted here some aerial footage of Soho house.

Stephen Drew: So this drone guy I keep bringing up every week I've got one or two from before but this one I quite enjoy because let's get it really HD. Here we go This is how do I get rid of the things? I gotta go off tonight. That helps This is high definition footage of New York In the evening. Very cool.

Stephen Drew: Where, it's a city full of lights at night. It's very vertical like we were talking about before. So it's a nice little bit of eye candy. I think it looks better. Lights. Yeah, it does look really cool at night, doesn't it? So I really think that either the stream's gone dead well or I think everyone has decided.

Stephen Drew: That Emily's House is the best, so until I hear anything I think Emily's house is the winner. I think. We'll [00:38:00] see. Cool. We'll see. So while we're here.

Will Ridgway: Yeah.

Stephen Drew: Yeah. Here we go. Oh, Dr. Liz is messaging me as well. Dr. Liz, are you there? Are we live? Who knows? Brilliant. Okay, so I think we can leave it on a note here until, drop a comment if you agree or disagree that Emily should win, I'm going to build a new feature, Will, on the projects page that underneath Emily's house, you can, we will have the badass building of the week and I'm going to do a little trophy badge and that every Project that wins, they will get their full credit there.

Stephen Drew: Great. So we've got four viewers joined now. So that to me suggests that the stream still works. Emily's house is officially the winner.

Weekly Words of Wisdom and Conclusion
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Stephen Drew: And on that note, Will, I want to see [00:39:00] some weekly words of wisdom. So let's get up the Will's weekly words of wisdom. It's been a tough time.

Stephen Drew: It's still a tough time for many, but we need to look more positive.

Stephen Drew: We need to look forward. And many people tune into this live stream and they're feeling down, a little bit down. And just before they're giving up, we need to give them your weekly wizard wisdom to get them going. That's here. Your weekly words.

Will Ridgway: My weekly words of wisdom this week is to basically become more active in a sense of physical activity.

Will Ridgway: I've been very inactive over the lockdown. This applies

Stephen Drew: to me,

Will Ridgway: Will. Yeah, I know. This

Stephen Drew: is new to me.

Will Ridgway: It really un active and started getting involved back exercise again and I feel great. And I think you guys can all feel great if you [00:40:00] just get going with it again and

Stephen Drew: get outside. How much are you exercising?

Stephen Drew: Pardon? How much are you exercising at the moment? I'm exercising nearly every day. How are you? Yeah, very much. Oh, man, hang on. Today is my wrestling. Today is my wrestling. Hang on. Okay,

Stephen Drew: so what exercises are you doing? Do some star jumps?

Will Ridgway: Yeah, do some star jumps. Do some press ups, go for a walk. Anything to get you active, make you feel better.

Stephen Drew: Don't go to Tesco's and buy beers. That's

Stephen Drew: Yeah,

Stephen Drew: there's

Stephen Drew: a

Stephen Drew: walk there, but you're

Stephen Drew: actually at the platform

Stephen Drew: there. Yeah, I agree. All front tied on that, though. Will. I've really enjoyed working with you as well. We have been the Architecture Social show.

Stephen Drew: I hope it was a good time. Let's get a little meme at the end. Let's get a little I hope everyone's having a good time. We will get there in the end. Seriously, we will do. We will get there. Yeah. Oh [00:41:00] yeah. Let me turn that off. All right.

Stephen Drew: We will get there. We will get there. Thank you everyone. It's been a good week.

Stephen Drew: Now I want to leave it on that note and we will see you next week. Bye bye. Yeah, bye.

Stephen Drew: Bye.