trafalgar square

The Tournament is an installation created by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón for the London Design Festival. The gigantic chess set is made of 2m-high ceramic pieces on a specially created mosaic glass chess board. Each of the 32 chess pieces, the designs of which were …

Two pigeons in Trafalgar Square watch the antics of a One And Other participant. Bill: He’s got a tent. Ben: What the hell is that? Bill: [Bobbing up and down with excitement] It’s a blow-up doll! It is! It is a blow-up doll! Christ almighty, …

Photo by Herschell Hershey via the Londonist photo pool. It’s been almost three month since the death of Michael Jackson was announced and the fans are still coming to term with the news, it seems. Indeed, some even seem to believe that Bambi, just like …

Saturday saw the return to London of the BarclayCard World Freerun Championships, offering a chance for the best of the best from the world of urban freerunning / parkour to show their moves and duke it out for the title of 2009 World Champion. As …

It’s taken five weeks, but finally, one of the fourth plinth-dwellers in Trafalgar Square has done what any self-respecting exhibitionist, not to mention Mr Gormley himself, would do, and stripped down to the buff. The man, identified only as ‘Simon M’, got his kit off …

A catwoman prowls high above a plinth in Trafalgar Square adding a touch of colour to the neutral palette of the National Gallery behind. Photo by Maurizio Parenti via the Londonist Flickrpool.

‘Curse this yob culture’. Nicholas Penny, Director of the National Gallery, has unleashed an extraordinary broadside against Anthony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth experiment. Speaking to The Times, Mr Penny berates the idea as symptomatic of Britain’s shift away from artistic and architectural appreciation. He goes on …

Jill Gatcum releases a balloon on the first day of One and Other Antony Gormley’s fourth plinth project officially began at 9 this morning, but the launch was hi-jacked by anti-smoking protestor Stuart Holmes shimmying up the plinth to wave a banner. Everyone took it …

Well, Gormley’s done it. He got planning permission for One and Other just a week or so ago, and Monday sees the first Fourth Plinthers scrambling into place. Londonist applied en masse – of course we did. And although we’ve nothing to offer you in …

Canada turned 142 yesterday, and threw a birthday bash by Trafalgar Square’s algal fountains for Canadian ex-pats, and anyone who likes to wear red and white, eh? Images author’s own.