Oxo Tower

Sculpture, art and design at the Bargehouse by the OXO Tower.

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The government’s announcement last week that Heathrow’s third runway would be axed has rather spoiled the competition launched by Greenpeace last year to come up with a design that would thwart the project. Still, the competition winners were announced this week, and the effort by …

The Bargehouse at Oxo Tower Wharf is an uncannily appropriate venue for Katrina. The calm, orderly riverbank and festivity of the restaurants and bars feels like New Orleans pre-hurricane; once inside The Bargehouse, its five floors of dilapidation, peeling paint and neglect is a powerful …

As mentioned in our preview earlier this week, Divine Chocolate is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an exhibition of photographs from their worker co-owned Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farm in Ghana. The free exhibition is now open to the public (but sadly closes on the 9th) …

To celebrate their tenth year anniversary in the Fairtrade chocolate business, Divine Chocolate (co-owned by Kuapa Kokoo, a co-operative of 45,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana) is to host an exhibition of photographs which give insight into the lives of the Kuapa Kokoo farmers and follows …

Much maligned as the impromptu canvas of the expletive-loving graffitist and the inevitable arena of post-pub violence, London’s bus stop’s have been given a long-overdue shred of attention by graduate students at Kingston University. Sheltered: The Bus Stops Here features designs for the ideal bus …

We really didn’t know what to expect. An invitation from one of the participating students brought us here, but since Fine Art shows have been the most disappointing part of months of degree shows on Brick Lane over the last couple of years, our hopes …

Dusting off the snow from last year, every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and …