Michael Lin

Michael Lin describes his work as "something pleasant, warm, welcoming...something specific..."

On this You Tube film he describes his work and inspiration.

Lin is an artist that plays around with architectural spaces and bases his designs on Taiwanese fabrics that he finds around his home coming up with fabulous site specific solutions.

Concrete furniture

Grafitti

Elderly playground in North Manchester

This is a fabulous idea, but when I went to visit there was no one using it.   The playground cost £15,000 and consists of 6 pieces of equipment to help mobility and fitness.  A great concept, but not sure how well it is sited with number of pedestrians going by.  

Tutti Frutti by Urban Splash

Urban Splash has an interesting urban regeneration project in New Islington, Manchester called Tutti Frutti.  It's a regeneration project that will revitalise NE Manchester near to the Manchester City football ground.  Urban Splash admit that it's not an entirely original concept as they were inspired by the work of West 8 in Borneo Sporenberg, Amsterdam.

Gretchen Rubin - Happiness Project

Gretchen Rubin is researching a book on happiness and has her own blog called the happiness-project.  She is researching anything and everything that makes us happy.

10k steps walk

This walk was done to see approximately how far the 10,000 steps takes that the government suggests to maintain a reasonable level of fitness.  It was about 7 kilometres and it took about 1 1/2 hours to walk around a housing estate and park in North London.

Wibble Wobble wibble wobble - Jelly Building on a plate

Jelly architecture is not just a wibble wobble about nothing...this competition organised by the Bartlett at UCL, London earlier this summer brought out a whole range of flavoured architecture...

Slovenian architecture

Goldfrapp's Happiness

Goldrapp's video for Happiness is a good starting point for this project about both happiness and regeneration.