Posts tagged “london”
Brixton Windmill
I lived in London relatively close to the Brixton Windmill for some time, and tried to visit it once. In those days it was in a pretty bad state, but today it is restored and back running (on electricty!) or at least the sails are going round. The last in a chain of Windmills that [...]
Robin Hood Gardens Video
Johnathan Glancey makes a video in the Guardian which for once is an open and honest look at whether Robin Hood Gardens is worth saving or not.
County of London Plan 1945
I found a set of images from the County of London Plan 1945 booklet which marks a milestone in visualising and planning for cities. Already being produced before the end of WWII when it came out in 1945 the brainchild of Patrick Abercrombie. The set on flickr is however missing a great map of Social [...]
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson Amazon.com | uk Compare a bacteria with a human, with a city, with the planet. Weave in two personal stories and the clash of ideas and of the inherrant messiness of progress, and you may get the outline of this book. The Ghost Map is at once a real [...]
Jump London
A documentary of Sebastien Foucan the originator of parkour or free running jumping London. (via)
Brutalism under threat
Peter and Alison Smithson’s brutalist masterpiece Robin Hood Gardens looks set to be Demolished. But BD has launched a last minute attempt to save it. Go here to sign the online petition but you only have until march 7th to sign. I posted last summer about another brutalist masterpiece that is now demolished, they may [...]
The Tate Modern: rise of the megagallery
The Tate modern at the begining of this week announced a new extension to its Bankside Powerstation site in London. The extension by the same Architects who did the conversion of the power station Herzog & DeMeuron is radically different appproach from their conversion. The guardian & Gabion cover it well pointing out that although [...]
AA Summer Pavilion
Unit 2 of the AA are designing and making a summer pavilion with the help of Finnforest. They were just over there getting drunk with the rest of us in Esplande on Vappu. Looking forward to seeing the pavilion take shape on their blog .