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AO3100 Morecambe Icthyic Centre AO3200 Skippool MicroBrewery

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Wild Ride Brewing Company > Ascent Architecture & Interiors, Bend, Oregon: Architects for Commercial, Senior, Housing Design

Ascent Architecture's award-winning design remodeled a vacant lumber warehouse into Wild Ride Brewing's tap room and brewery, located in Redmond Oregon.

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51N4E - Project - The LAMOT brewery

The LAMOT brewery, since its origins in 1922, has been part of a continuous process of extension and demolition, a process of straightforward commercial reasoning whereby redundant parts are torn down without any emotion and newly needed infrastruct

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Brewers and Architects Spark the Next Brewpub Boom--Along the Green Line

Three about-to-open brewpubs and a new facility for a well established fourth are turning the Central Corridor area in Saint Paul and Minneapolis into the newest brewpub hot zone.

Good article: Interesting thoughts from Architects.

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Skippool Site Visit; Surrounding vernacular agricultural buildings.

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Skippool Initial Site Visit Photographs.

View from the hill behind the Boat club. Interesting height and views of the River Wyre.

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Skippool Initial Site Visit Photographs.

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Skippool Boat Club. Main Boat House and social space; Initial Site Visit.

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Skippool Initial Site Visit Photographs.

More Jettys and views over the River Wyre.

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Skippool Initial Site Visit Photographs.

Old jetty and tyres adjacent to site.

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Skippool Initial Site Visit Photographs.

All of us checking the views...

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Skippool Initial Site Visit Photographs.

Travelling towards the site along the edge of Skippool Creek, with the combination or old, ageing and new jettys and boats along the banks.

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Skippool Initial Site Visit Video.

The video highlights the acoustic interest the boats bring, as their rigging and masts chime in the wind.

It also shows the boats docked in the boat yard. I like the boats’ verticality; it makes for an interesting context and brings to mind nautical-inspired and tensile structures.

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Skippool Initial site Visit Sketches.

this drawing was from the river edge of the Wyre. It shows the riverside elevation oif the boat house, which I thought had an interesting geometry and depth, with the first floor door and balcony on an angle to the river edge.

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Skippool Initial site Visit Sketches.

Showing the boats docked in the boat yard. I like the boats, their verticality and the rigging; it makes for an interesting context and brings to mind nautical-inspired and tensile structures.

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Skippool Initial site Visit Sketches.

Showing the boats docked in the boat yard. I like the boats, their verticality and the rigging; it makes for an interesting context and brings to mind nautical-inspired and tensile structures. 

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Skippool Initial site Visit Sketches.

Showing the drop from the Boat House site down to the River Wyre; nice vista. May be visually striking to locate the site near here.