Urban Designer - Vernacular Architect - Maritime Planner - Owner-Builder - Servant of Piglet - Educator - Author - Revolutionary - Peacenik - Tour Guide 

Tony Watkins

 ~ Vernacular Design 

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Falkirk Wheel Scotland Print E-mail

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Boats are lowered down
The Millenium Link was a projet to connect the east and west of Scotland with an internal waterway.

 

 

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Colletta del Castelbianco Print E-mail
ImageThe old mediaeval village had been derelict and deserted for many years. Then Giancarlo di Carlo brought it back to life as the most high-tech village in Europe.
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Icefield Parkway Canada Print E-mail

ImageThe road which runs north from Lake Loise to Jasper, in the Canadian Rockies, is one of the most spectacular in the world.

 

 

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MAK Museum in Vienna Print E-mail

ImageLife is the story of astonishing coincidences. I happened to be driving around the ring road in Vienna when I saw a building almost completely covered by a timber facade. "Scarpa" was the sign on the new facade.

 

 

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Scarpa in Venice Print E-mail
ImageThe Querini-Stampaia Foundation is very close to St Marks and not too difficult to find,
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Gehry in Berlin Print E-mail
ImageThe outside is rather dull and unimpossing.Within is a wonderland.
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