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Games Maker – London Olympics 2012

Kristian Hyde — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:03:16 +0000

Games Maker!

Practice Director Kay Hyde returns to the studio having volunteered as a Games Maker at the Olympic Park.

Kay’s role as Venue Entry ‘Team Leader’ involved working alongside the Ministry of Defence ensuring visitors to the Park were welcomed and prepared to go through security checks as quickly as possible.

Kay noted “ the atmosphere in and around the park was electric during the games, I felt truly privileged to have the opportunity to contribute a small part in making the games a success and to meet and work alongside some truly remarkable and inspiring people”.

Research Tour – Berlin 2008

Kristian Hyde — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:15:08 +0000

As part of its annual research study tour Hyde + Hyde architects travelled to Berlin to visit series of seminal works by architects such as Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Peter Behrens, Bruno and Max Taut, Erich Mendelsson, Hans Scharoun and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Various urban developments and sensitive sites such as the ‘topography of terror’ was also visited.

Our focus: The tectonic…in the German enlightenment, 1750-187. Where architecture was celebrated as a constructional craft. We opted for sustainable travel with Fatt Bike Tours, Berlin; cycling around the city and parks allowed chance encounters with contemporary works such as the The Gallery AM Kupfergaben 10 by David Chipperfield.

Insight was gained into the urban strategies, architectural solutions and technological innovations under way. We visited projects in development around the inner city and in Berlin’s intensely historical centre.

Mies van der Rohe – Museum of Modern Art - a modern tectonic expressing a classical logic

Mies van der Rohe – Museum of Modern Art

Holocaust Memorial, Architect Peter Eisenman, Berlin

Checkpoint Charlie

Neues Museum, Berlin

The war memorial Neue Wache, symbolizing the suffering of civilians during the war

The Jewish Museum Berlin, facade ventilation detail

The Jewish Museum Berlin - concrete monolith

Surface, materials, Jewish Museum Berlin,

Research Tour – Athens 2008

Kristian Hyde — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:35:33 +0000

As part of its annual research study tour Hyde + Hyde architects travelled to Athens in August 2008.

The practice visited a series of ancient monuments such as the Erectheion, Stoa of Attalus, Temple of Athena Nike, Temple of Hephaestus, The Parthenon and not to mention the beautiful Hellenic style architecture and Byzantine churches within the city.

The Parthenon - in the presence of perfection and the origin of Order

Ruins in sunlight on the plateau of the Acropolis

Order and proportion in the Agora

Agora

The definition of a warm country can be defined when the shadows are more prominent than the object itself.

Agora from the distance

Meticulous decretive detailing to the base of a column at the Acropolis