Okay, it’s been a couple of weeks and I have started to settle in at the new company. My impressions I’ll keep to myself for the moment until I can clear all the blogging issues with HR/PR.
I said I was going to run through some of my favourite Curtins projects and I meant to do it. So there is no reason I still can’t update with some of the projects I enjoyed doing most. I would like to run through one of my all time most favourite projects: Marine Scotland, Fisheries Research project. As it is in research and probably fairly protective of its data I will spare you the gritty details and leave you with the Youtube video:
Nice huh? I particularly like the part where they see the pond. That’s my pond! Hopefully it will look like that in reality but I have the sneaking suspicion that it will end up like all the small ponds I’ve ever designed (horrible).
The thing I enjoyed most about this project was that it was in Aberdeen and I got to fly there once a month for about 18 months. And most importantly, I loved the design team. The Architects were some of the best I’ve ever worked with and the whole group of us got on really well. That’s not to say that there wasn’t the odd bit of heated debate (I believe the design team leader once suggested to my director that I be “taken outside and shot”) but in all it was one of the most satisfying projects to work on, both in complexity of design and involvement throughout delivery.
And did I mention the fish and chips you could get at the golf course club house across from site?! I’m not a huge fish eater, but when you’re designing a building to protect fish health you can’t help sitting there thinking about a nice piece of deep-fried ocean dwelling animal. See here a photo of Niren enjoying the dish:
Fish of the North Sea, I enjoyed eating you almost as much as I enjoyed being a part of the delivery of your future healthcare.
