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Swipe to see the cutest rockstar! ๐ŸŽธLast month we launched the "Silver City with the Golden Sounds" Exhibition. A collabo...
17/06/2025

Swipe to see the cutest rockstar! ๐ŸŽธ

Last month we launched the "Silver City with the Golden Sounds" Exhibition. A collaboration between Our Union Street volunteers and ourselves. The exhibition celebrates the musical history of Aberdeen focusing on local bands and their stories throughout the decades.

Hosted in an empty retail unit, the pop of red helps brighten Union Street whilst the letting agents finds a tenant.

Pop on down to 172 Union Street to see it yourself ; )




for Our Union Street's New office.ย  Featuring iconic buildings from Union Street this graphic helps give a pop of colo...
10/06/2025

for Our Union Street's New office.ย  Featuring iconic buildings from Union Street this graphic helps give a pop of colour to their shop front!



Cedric Price is considered to be one of the most visionary architects of the late 20th century. Whilst he built very lit...
18/02/2025

Cedric Price is considered to be one of the most visionary architects of the late 20th century. Whilst he built very little during his career, he believed buildings have a set life span and campaigned for the demolition of his buildings instead of having them listed.

This motivated us to create a design that was temporary and could be easily dismantled. Three projects influenced our concept design for the โ€œDelightful Fun: a Cedric Price Thinkbelt for our timesโ€exhibition.

1. Fun Palace 1964 by Cedric Price and commission by Joan Littlewood.
2. Southend Roof 1971-1975 by Cedric Price in collaboration with Frank Newby (a consulting engineer).
3. Inter-Action Centre 1977-1992 by Cedric price in collaboration with Felix J. Samuely & Partners (a consulting engineering firm) and Will Alsop (assistant). It was demolished in 2003, the year of Cedric Priceโ€™s death.

Keep an eye out to see the final outcome!

Last year we were asked to design an exhibition in collaboration is to celebrate the life and work for Cedric Price. In...
14/02/2025

Last year we were asked to design an exhibition in collaboration is to celebrate the life and work for Cedric Price.

In a very Cedric Price fashion we set about sketching ideas for the exhibition looking to hint towards Priceโ€™s work. Notably we were fascinated by inflatables! ๐ŸŽˆ

It was apply named โ€œDelightful Fun: a Cedric Price Thinkbelt for our timesโ€.
The exhibition showcased two original prototypes of market stalls designed by Cedric Price and a range of archival materials โ€“ including prints of original drawings, texts, ephemera, film extracts and audio recordings โ€“ showing the diversity of his practice and interdisciplinary conversations, alongside community and civic engagement pedagogical projects from Aberdeen.

It was to be part of a travelling exhibition that would visit multiple schools of architecture across the UK. Keep an eye out for more to come!

4 weeks to go - Canโ€™t wait to show you this fun project we have been working on ๐ŸŽˆ๐Ÿ”ณโ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€” ...
05/09/2024

4 weeks to go - Canโ€™t wait to show you this fun project we have been working on ๐ŸŽˆ๐Ÿ”ณ

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26/08/2024

Visualise: Lights, Lights, Lights ๐Ÿ’ก

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A couple of months ago we had a lot of fun working with producing some visuals for a city centre flat in . One of the key focuses was on lighting which really pops in the space! Lighting is integral to the feeling of a space and this project really shows it.

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Aimee Florence Jackson

06/08/2024

Extra, Extra, Read all about it! ๐Ÿ“ฐ

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Check out this article that featured some of our AI Visualisations in collaboration with Our Union Street.
We used Ai to create a rapid visualisation process that allowed us to generate multiple internal visuals for 15 empty units on Union Street to help highlight their potential to the public.

Featured :
Unit 47 - Bakery
Unit 172 - Food Market
Unit 198 - Whisky Shop

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/6409563/ai-images-reveal-potential-of-union-street-empty-units/

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Our Union Street Aimee Florence Jackson@inmanj03


29/07/2024

Cafes & Restaurants & Retail - Oh My! โ˜•๏ธ

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Here are all of the final Ai Visuals that were created for 15 empty units across Union Street. Each unit had two Visuals created, one as a retail unit and the other as a hospitality design.

Retail Interiors : Craft Store, Book Shop, Plant Shop, Camera Store, Sport Shop, Clothing Store, Technology Shop, Market, Whisky Shop, Workshop Space, Vinyl Store, Comic Book Shop, Shoe Shop, Ceramic Shop, Refill Store.

Hospitality Interiors: Bakeries, Cafes, Soup Store, Kids play zone, Restaurants, Dessert Shop, Soft Play, Vegan Cafe, Smoothie Shop.

Stay tuned for where you can view all these visuals at a larger scale.

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Our Union Street Florence Jackson


Our Signature bakes - cooking up some visualsโ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”Here are some of our favourite Ai Visuals ...
26/07/2024

Our Signature bakes - cooking up some visuals

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Here are some of our favourite Ai Visuals on some empty units on Union Street.

Unit 47 was transformed into a Bakery and Unit 164 was visualised as a restaurant. Unit 252B was imagined as a Vinyl Shop whilst Unit 373 was reinvented into a Comic Book Shop.

Can you find whatโ€™s out of place in the first visual?

Keep an eye on this page to see all the Ai results.

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Our Union Street Aimee Florence Jackson


25/07/2024

๐•„๐•ฆ๐•ฅ๐•’๐•ฅ๐•š๐• ๐•Ÿ : is the key to our evolution ~ Professor X

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You donโ€™t always get what you want - we learned that the hard way โŒ

The test you have seen before yielded some questionable but humorous results. By making mistakes and testing the process, we could learn from the mistakes.

แด›ษชแดแด‡ แด›แด แด˜แดœแด› แด›สœแด‡ แดกแดส€แด‹๊œฐสŸแดแดก แด›แด แด›สœแด‡ แด›แด‡๊œฑแด›โ€ฆ

Keep an eye on this page to see the final results.

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Our Union Street Aimee Florence Jackson


24/07/2024

Back to the drawing board โœ๏ธ - Developing a Rapid Visualisation Process

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Following our previous tests we implemented the lessons we had learned.

๏ผณ๏ฝ‰๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝŒ๏ฝ‰๏ฝ†๏ฝ™

We simplified the inputs to the AI model by returning to quick and rough sketches.

๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ

We then tested grounding the outputs in reality, collaging elements together with photographs. The ice-cream shop we tested is a great example of the importance of the photographic elements that anchor the image to reality. The AI outputs were crazy and out of this world, restraining them in the photo helped a lot.

The speed we could produce the sketches and Ai outputs gave us a promising workflow to produce a large number of high quality visuals in a short amount of time.

๐šƒ๐š‘๐šŽ ๐š™๐š›๐š˜๐šŒ๐šŽ๐šœ๐šœ ๐š’๐šœ๐š—'๐š ๐š๐š’๐š—๐š’๐šœ๐š‘๐šŽ๐š ๐šข๐šŽ๐š...

Keep an eye on this page to find out more.

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Our Union Street Aimee Florence Jackson


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