#superbritish

[ofhouses]

955. Adam Caruso & Peter St John /// Studio House /// Highbury, London, UK /// 1993-94

OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part VII: SuperBritish. (Photos: © Hélène Binet. Source: Gennaro Postiglione, ’100: One Hundred Houses for One Hundred European Architects of the Twentieth Century’, Köln: Taschen, 2004.)

[elizabethrobertajones]

Even though I wanted him to stay dead after 12x22, I have to admit I enjoy Ketch now that he has been getting less and less the sociopathic murderer and more just a semi-bumbling British version of DHJ

Yep… DHJ is doing a wonderful job as Ketch and that’s the most annoying part since thematically he should have stayed dead after 12x22 if only because he had served his story purpose and he’d only been brought in to do that, it’s not like he was introduced as a character to bolster the ranks because lord knows we need more violent white guys. I don’t think DHJ excuses that entirely because as lovely as he is as a person and as well as he plays Ketch he’s still not necessary for the show and it would be neater and better if we could just follow him to other projects and admire him giving other characters some love elsewhere. It’d be cool if he got a big job on another TV show and Ketch had to die and that was that, though the damage is done to 12x22 already and there’s no taking it back… 

But if Ketch HAS to be on the show, DHJ still makes him annoyingly enjoyable and it’s pretty hilarious having him pop up just to be dunked on by Bobo, who clearly has not forgiven Buckleming for bringing him back if this is how he writes him now… >.> Because, like, 12x14 for example, or even 12x22, you can TELL Bobo actually really LIKED Ketch and thought he was kinda fun to write back when he was plot relevant. He really made him pay off as a villain, and THAT was what was taken away by bringing him back. Any meaning in his death which had rounded off the epic-ness of 12x22′s confrontation… 

*sigh*

[ofhouses]

956. Future Systems /// Malator (Bob Marshall-Andrews House) /// Druidston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK /// 1994-98

OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part VII: SuperBritish. (Photos: © James O. Davies. Source: Marcus Field, ‘Future Systems’, London: Phaidon Press, 1999.)

[ofhouses]

957. John Pawson /// Pawson House /// Notting Hill, London, UK /// 1997-99

OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part VII: SuperBritish. (Photos: © Hisao Suzuki, Todd Eberle, Richard Glover, Richard Davies. Source: El Croquis 127/2005, ‘John Pawson 1996-2005′; Gennaro Postiglione, ’100: One Hundred Houses for One Hundred European Architects of the Twentieth Century’, Köln: Taschen, 2004.)

[ofhouses]

959. Tony Fretton /// Red House /// Chelsea, London, UK /// 1996-01

OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part VII: SuperBritish. (Photos: © Hélène Binet, Peter Cook, Peter Durant. Source: Tony Fretton, ‘Tony Fretton Architects: Buildings and their Territories', Basel: Birkhäuser, 2014; AV Monografias 102/2003.)

[ofhouses]

960. Sean Griffiths (FAT) /// Blue House /// Hackney, East London, UK /// 1999-02

OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part VII: SuperBritish. (Photos: © Raf Makda, David Borland, Morley Von Sternberg, Christopher Hope-Fitch.)

[ofhouses]

958. David Adjaye /// Elektra House /// Whitechapel, London, UK /// 1998-00

OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part VII: SuperBritish. (Photos: © Lyndon Douglas. Source: Domus 835/2001; Detail 11/2005; AV Monografias 90/2001.)

[ofhouses]

954. David Chipperfield /// Nick Knight House /// Richmond, Surrey, UK /// 1990-01

OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part VII: SuperBritish. (Photos: © Richard Bryant/Arcaid, Dennis Gilbert, Hélène Binet, Hisao Suzuki. Source: Domus 716/1990, El Croquis 120/2004 ‘David Chipperfield 1998-2004′.)