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Matt Brown

I'm Editor of Londonist and utterly obsessed with the capital.

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Serpentine Pavilion Bloats Out

Well, it’s up. London’s latest dome has been inflated in Hyde Park. The giant ovoid is this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Rem Koolhaas. The architect is world famous but, as is the tradition for the gallery’s annual summer pavilion, has never built a structure …

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Cogito Ergo Summary: Your Weekly Science Listings

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Dino Jaws at the Natural History Museum Nothing packs in the punters like a few animatronic …

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Touch Up London #4

Another anonymous reader sends us this shot of a mallet-wielding giant playing a Prescott-sized croquet course. After a succesful pass through the Marble Arch, the monstrous player fell foul of the Wellington Arch dog-leg, but regained the lead after earning a masterful bonus stroke to …

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Weekend Interview: Brian The Blogging Pigeon

Brian the pigeon is in the running for Londoner of the year. The capital’s smallest, most-winged blogger has taken the media by storm, appearing in TimeOut, The Guardian and even starring in his own movies. We caught up with the little fellow to find out …

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Random Graffiti Of The Week

Caliper Boy. A legend in his own lifetime. Though, we’d have expected something a bit better from him by now, given that his lifetime allegedly spans a couple of centuries. Legend has it that Caliper Boy has been around since the early 1800s, ‘lurking as …

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Inside The Serpent’s Egg

You know how London buildings always get nicknames (gherkin, cheesegrater, giant glass testicle, yada, yada, yada)? Well we’re wondering what this one’s going to be called. The Translucent Egg? The Floaty Ovum? The Breast Implant? This is the cracking design for the 2006 Serpentine Gallery …

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Olympickpockets

Nice little notice we spotted on a recent jaunt through the future Olympic site, appended to a building on Marshgate Lane. Let’s hope they send in Rentokil before the games get underway – the site is just south of where the main stadium will be …

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Cogito Ergo Summary: Your Weekly Science Listings

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, from Monday Roll up, roll up, for the premier event in …

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One Of These Structures Gets Built: You Decide Which

Yup, it’s voting time, folks. Head over to the LIFT site to have your say on a futuristic events space for London. The so-caled ‘New Parliament‘ will be a temporary, portable building at the heart of the 2008 LIFT biennial. It’s going to travel the …

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Touch Up London #3

An anonymous reader sent us this early concept image for Foster’s phallic tower. Finally, the erotic gherkin lives up to its nickname. Keep sending those lovely photoshopped London images to londonist – at- gmail – dot – com. And, please, no more gherkins for a …