London Architecture Biennale and Architecture Week got off to a fine if sweaty start this weekend. We’d particularly recommend ‘Transit’, an Iain Sinclair-narrated short film by Emily Richardson, in catacombs beneath Smithfield Market – spooky, thought provoking and surprisingly deserted when we visited. Here’s our …
Following on from yesterday’s post, which listed ongoing events, here are the ones to catch this weekend only. Friday Renzo Piano ‘Sermon’: The man behind the Shard will deliver a ‘sermon’ from Southwark Cathedral. £15, booking required. Saturday Sheep Drive: You won’t want to miss …
The London Architectural Biennale and Architecture Week kick off proper tomorrow. Don’t be put off by the user-unfriendly names. Most of the events are aimed squarely at us everyday Londoners, and you’ll need no architectural knowledge to enjoy the activities. However, you will need very …
Old Street and its environs are famous for guerilla art. Half the buildings in the area are practically held together by a decades-thick veneer of spray paint, posters and wheatpaste. But in recent months, this creative street art has come ‘off the wall’ and entered …
Londonist likes poker. Remember when we won that trophy earlier this year? Wow that was sweet… …Anyway as much as we love the Gutshot club up on the Clerkenwell Road, what London is really missing is a really swanky gambling establishment with rugs and leather …
Funny place, Holborn: it’s not the City; it’s not the West End; it refuses to be pinned down to any point of the compass. It is obscure and recondite to most people, a lesser-known and unappealing neighbour to Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell. There are diddly-squat famous …
If Londonist ever had to get itself a ‘board of directors’ a few names would immediately spring to mind: Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd…and Lee Jackson. Lee is the author of three historical thrillers as well as a huge, illustrated book on Victorian London. He is …
It’s a struggle but Londonist must occasionally provide the odd Pete Doherty story… Model-mating tabloid-baiting Pete Doherty is reported by the NME to be confirmed for the Love Music Hate Racism gig this Sunday (1st May). According to BabyShambles.net, he’s playing an acoustic set sometime …
Nothing quite says “tragic beauty” like a spot of aggregate, and no colour is quite so regal as “greygreen”. Yes folks, the Princess Diana Memorial Storm Sewer is in the headlines again. You may remember the fountain; it’s been “troubled”, as sub-editors say when asked …
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