The award-winning Zaha Hadid was today announced as the designer of London’s Olympic Aquatics Centre. Which may or may not be the plain old London Aquatics Centre, depending on whether we get the 2012 Olympics. Either way, it will be built. The building looks very …
Diminutive R’n’B ubermensch Usher rocked London to it’s very core last night with a lavish £10,000 party at his hotel to launch the short movie “Rhythm City: Volume 1: Money, Power, Respect” (which is apparently his Citizen Kane). He kicked off at the Rex Bar …
If you are looking for something to do besides follow the premiership matches this weekend (which may be well impossible for a majority of our readers), you may consider making your way over to the Business Design Centre in Islington for the 17th Annual London …
Very sad news today: the proposed ‘mountain project’ for Kensington Gardens has been postponed for at least a year. The idea was to get Dutch architectural firm MVRDV to built a grass-covered “temporary mountain” on to the back of the Serpentine Gallery (most people are …
A quick TV tip for this evenings viewing is the BBCs Drugland showing on BBC2 at 9pm. Apparently it’s “an inside look at an industry that employs 20,000 people in London“, no, not the Sale Sign holding industry (though that is long overdue an expose), …
OK, so The Tower of London might not make it as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World but it’s still a pretty impressive building, and it’s nice to see that Historic Royal Palaces (who run the Tower along with Hampton Court, Kensington …
Grand Theft Auto step aside because a leading video games developer has announced that they have secured the licence to create a driving game based on the London Black Cab. Now, before you all rush out to your local games shop demanding that they reserve …
Question: which major worldwide brand opened a flagship store in central London this month? Answer: Adidas. Maybe not the best scheduling decision the world has ever seen. After all, we don’t recall seeing people queueing days in advance just to catch a glimpse of David …
Do you think Her Majesty has ever taken public transport in her life? We’re betting not, but that doesn’t stop her admiring such “British design classics” as the Routemaster bus and the traditional black cab. These are some of the design icons which are being …
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