London before and after seems to be on our minds at the moment. Ever since that week in July that seemed to give with one hand and then took it all away with the other, the people who live and work here have been forced …
Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, for the new series of Green Wing (Fri 9pm C4) is upon us! We don’t envy whoever has to go round the Tube taking down all the teaser posters, however. There isn’t much we can add to this, except it makes us …
On one of our frequent joyful jaunts around the city, we stumbled across this intriguing series of stone carvings. The works decorate the otherwise prosaic offices of Diageo, at 8 Henrietta Place (just north of Bond St station). They’re the folk who look after some …
A couple more proposed skyscrapers have emerged over the past week. Both of them are only at early design stages and seem to set new standards in bonkers architecture. We mean that in a nice way. If London has to grow tall, then it should …
Well, we’ve already had look at Wembley today, so we might as well take a peak at London’s other big, troubled development: Heathrow. Today’s Times includes an article which tells us what to expect from the airport’s new Terminal 5…if it ever gets finished. Apparently, …
The Victoria and Albert’s storming Late Night series is a much anticipated monthly event: every last Friday of the month sees the museum being taken over by specially invited organisations who use the space and sometimes the existing exhibitions for their own creative business. One …
We’d just about stopped wetting our pants with excitement over the immense pleasures of Google Earth. So imagine the burden on our underwear after finding a site that (1) makes bits of London 3-D and (2) allows one to…oh my shattered bladder…TRAVEL THROUGH TIME. Digitally …
Like the majority of people we like looking at buildings but, if we’re honest, we don’t really know the first thing about architecture. Every now and again though a magazine, tv programme or website manages to cut through the smokescreen of architectural jargon and actually …
Things are a-brewing on the South Bank. The proposed Beetham Tower, AKA 1 Blackfriars Road, AKA The Boomerang, looks like it’s found a major occupant. But a substantial redesign will also be necessary. The 68 gleaming stories will rival the nearby Shard in elegance and …
Interesting times these for London architecture. While eyes remain transfixed by Lord Richnorm Rogfoster’s kiss-my-glass office spaces, and ears prick at the frustrated shriek of a dozen would-be skyscrapers unable to move from blueprint to footprint, a quiet revolution seems to be going on at …
A new play written for and about the Beaumont Estate in Leyton, East London will be performed in one of the estate’s blocks of flats just weeks before it is due to be torn down. As the 2012 Olympics creep closer, the skyline and architecture …
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