ryanmcclan: Archive

A bunch of us took the train at 5 in the morning to Prora and Sissnitz on to the Baltic sea for a day trip. Went to go hangout by the ocean and look at this massive Nazi built holiday buildings that were unfinished and today sit mostly in ruins. Part of it has become a hostel now. Quite fun to climb around in. We brought our bikes and rode around from town to town. When you party all night...

Oct 19th

Me and a few friends from work took advantage of the Shones Workende ticket on the DB train network and went to Essen in the Ruhr valley for the weekend. Since the pass only starts on Saturday we left Berlin in the middle of the night. Took a nap at the Nordsee in Hanover while waiting for Fabien… who took a slightly different route to get to Hanover… Finally made it to...

Oct 10th

Today we went to the cold-war era abandoned US listening post Toffelsberg. It’s west of Berlin up a hill in this wooded area. Not much of a secret place. It’s pretty cool. My point and shoot camera broke, so everything is from my iphone. Really nice afternoon. The Olympic stadium and Corbusier’s Berlin Unite in the trees. Definitely a highlight to climb up...

Sep 17th

I’m living in Berlin and interning for the fall at http://www.sauerbruchhutton.de/ Really happy to be here. I’ve been here for for a couple weeks now. I’m living in the Prenzlauerberg/Mitte area and it’s cool. The apartment. Our street. Das ist mein neues fahrrad. Gonna drink my way through this selection at our local grocer. Sauerbruch Hutton...

Aug 28th

I spent the last couple months in Chicago, Il. working at Skidmore Owings & Merrill and hanging out. It was really fun. Chicago is a cool place. Saw lots of cool buildings, got to meet some really cool people, ate good food. I didn’t take too many photos for some reason… iphone photos: SOM designed trump tower on a cloudy architectural boat tour day. Part of the awesome...

Jul 30th

Here are some random photos from miscellaneous rolls of film I finally got around to developing. Italy & some odds and ends:

May 17th

After Berlin, went to Stockholm to hang out with Tom Chung for about a week. Stockholm is a really awesome city. Feels like Vancouver but everything is nicer. We hung out, mostly relaxed, saw some things, and had a bunch of Swedish coffee breaks. We went around and looked at all these awesome furniture and housewares shops. Everyone really cares about their home and what they put in them....

Mar 13th

I just returned from a 2 week European vacation. Here is part 1 of the trip from our study trip to Berlin courtesy of the German government. Brandenburg gates Greeting package of gummy bears in my hotel room. We went and met with someone from the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development who showed us the city planning of new buildings and areas of Berlin in this room with a...

Mar 8th

I stumbled across this photo from a while ago on my computer today. You know what this is a photo of? A winner.

Feb 16th

Very excited to launch my website today! http://ryanmcclanaghan.com/ Huge thanks to Andy Chung for building the website!

Jan 31st

My good friend Richard was kind enough to invite a bunch of us up to his family’s cabin a couple hours outside of Toronto for a weekend. We bought a suckling pig and had an outdoor pigroast. Other notable highlights: late night frozen lake walks illuminated mostly by sparklers, a bb gun pistol, and cold cold snow. This little guy died [petrified and very dead squirrel] fell in the...

Jan 29th

Hi, Sorry for the lack of updates: been getting back to the school thing for the new semester. Hopefully a few new things to get going on the internet soon.

Jan 12th

Myself, Ayesha Moghul, and Richard Lam were awarded the first prize for the Young Leaders for Future Cities competition. We won a trip to Berlin in February. Pop champagne like the won the championship-game. We went to Montreal for the award ceremony for the day (flew in for the morning and flew home in the early evening) and just had enough time to snag some st. viateur bagels before our...

Dec 14th

Well, here’s an unenthusiastic blog post. Had to declare some sort of intent to do a thesis: I’ve so far decided to study the embassy as a collision of a number of things I’m interested in (building as symbol, international identity, “open” compound, a zone of other, secret spaces, the hallways of power). We had to do a poster so that’s what’s posted...

Nov 29th

Went to Ottawa for the workshop related to the German Embassy competition we posted below. The Federal Republic of Germany was nice enough to send us Via Rail and and get us rooms for two nights at the Ottawa Jail Hostel. It’s a historical ex-jail turned hostel where you sleep in old cells. It was interesting. When we showed up there was one of those ghost walking tours happening. ...

Nov 4th

Myself, Richard Lam, and Ayesha Moghal entered a student competition to design infill housing for Toronto hosted in conjunction with the German Embassy and were selected as one of the teams from U of T. We’ll be heading to Ottawa next week to participate in a series of workshops led by German building experts. After that, we’ll be submitting to hopefully go to Berlin in February. In...

Oct 19th

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Oct 13th

Went to Montreal for Thanksgiving weekend and hung out with Megan Lau! It was a super fun, relaxing, and eventful weekend. I love riding on the train on the eastcoast around thanksgiving. This trip was no different. Montreal’s great bike Bixie bike share program makes it so easy to get around and Montreal put on a great time with the sunny weather. Highlights include: frequenting...

Oct 13th

Wrapped up this little side project - for some reason I felt like buying some white linen and dye it with indigo dye, it kind of transitions from deep black almost to a navy blue. The accidental result was partially dieing my hands blue for a bit. Well I noticed it at least. It’s been pretty chill here lately. Aside from the usual work load (nothing really worth posting up yet), managed to...

Sep 27th

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As I neglect this blog, it might be because I’m using these: http://twitter.com/ryanmcclan http://ffffound.com/home/ryanmcclan/found/ And as a bonus - I probably should have included this photo in the last post - site visit cat: Who says architecture needs to be so serious.

Sep 22nd

Back to school in Toronto again. New desk, new studio project for infill housing and retail on Dundas West at Roncesvalles.

Sep 14th

Wrapped up a super rad Vancouver summer by stopping en route to Toronto in NYC for a week. Traveled with http://www.meganlau.com/ and http://andychung.ca/. Stayed with my friends Cat and Josh (if you guys had websites i’d rather drop your names that way). Thanks guys - you’re the best. Me and Andy flew from Vancouver via a redeye that had a stopover in Minneapolis which I think is...

Aug 27th

I worked for Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden + Cohos Evamy (so many names I know) in Vancouver this summer. Great place to work, great people, great architects. http://hbbharc.com/ Worked on a new pair of residences out at UBC right beside the Totem residences - New Totem Residences. If you’ve been by, you’ll have seen the hole. First building I’ve worked on (worked on, not...

Aug 27th

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Will Blair of http://sharkhitecture.tumblr.com/ is going to Japan for an amazing 4 month architecture course. So we celebrated his departure and the end of summer with a dinner at Shabusen where korean bbq and all you can consume sushi merge in ways only Vancouver can pull off properly. Well, I guess this breaks my no-reblog policy, but this is still close to original content: shot and edited by...

Aug 10th

Fraser, Will and I entered an architecture/landscape competition to design a skateboard plaza for Rotterdam. Unfortunately we did not place and therefore did not get 2,000 Eurodollars. Anyways, here are some images from the competition entry. The design was a pretty modest proposal of planted areas, seating areas/skateable ledges, lighting features, and two transitioned “waves”. ...

Jul 22nd

I think swimming has become a favorite pastime of mine this summer: third beach, spanish banks, kit’s pool…etc. Soaking in the water then lounging around in the sun. Getting on island time - no watch, no worries. Went for an overnight camping expedition this weekend near Whistler. We camped at the famous Lake Eatabagadicks where we jumped off of the diving board, lazed about on the...

Jul 19th

Final Day of the 2010 Vuvuzela Festival!

Jul 11th

Thursday and Vancouver heat has arrived - afterwork Third beach with Tom Chung, Colin, Jane, Ellen, Jane’s friend, Michelle and Lucasssss. Then Korean food and green tea mochi. Bag contents: towel, 8 pack of budweiser + PAYDAY!

Jul 9th

Cananda Day Thursday + Long weekend + World Cup Watching at Work + Beach with Chung Bros… It’s goood

Jul 3rd

Stayed at the super rad apartment with www.andychung.ca while www.davidlang.me was in China. Unfortunately now the stay-cation is over. Interested in other possible stay-cating venues though.

Jun 29th

Went to Bainbridge Island Washington for the weekend:

Jun 21st

Bike ride & third beach

Jun 16th

Summercamp weekend.

Jun 16th

CBC PlayOn Street Hockey tournament: Didn’t take too many photos was too busy running around and playing. Photos from pre-game preparation for our 3rd and last game and the after tournament chill session.

Jun 11th

BC day long weekend a bunch of friends hiked the chief in Squamish. It was rad

Jun 3rd

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May 23rd

Work- the office in Railtown: Port & Mountain View One of the bosses desks. My desk. No View.

May 20th

Los Angeles I’m back in Vancouver for the summer now.

May 7th

Las Vegas- final leg before LA.

May 7th

My friend Nelson was going to LA for an architecture internship and realized that he needed a car in that city and I realized I needed an adventure. AMERICA 2010. The first few days: Chicago, The Purple Pig, Iowa, Grand Island- Nebraska, The Wolf Den Bar - Rock Springs- Wyoming, Utah.

May 7th

Apr 30th

Before and after - straight vray rendering and then photoshop work

Apr 23rd

Finished comprehensive building studio today; elementary school. If people want to dork out on the full drawings etc. let me know. I’ll post.

Apr 15th

elementary school design is due today for studio. here’s one side of the building

Apr 9th

Mar 20th

Mar 17th

SuperSandwich Ice Cream Life

Mar 16th

Fried Chicken and Waffles Brunch

Mar 14th

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Animation for a visual communication class from last year - 3ds Max and Premiere -fits the rainy day mood of Toronto today pretty well.

Mar 12th