Exhibition at the AA
Kent SMS is this evening 15th October, attending the private view of Reading Landscape:Contemporary Landscape Photography ; the new photography exhibition at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Friend of Kent SMS Sue Barr is one of the great and the good exhibiting their personal take on the uninhabitated Landscape. This is one of Sue’s images. [...]
gauguin
tate modern has assembled an amazing exhibition of this artists work including some fine paintings when he used to saunter along to brittany wearing wooden clogs
no place for turkey twizzlers
Alain de Botton spoke with alacrity at the V&A on Friday 17th September about the five quite different houses that are to be constructed by his unique organisation Living Architecture. It is a riposte to the modern commercial housebuilder the ‘turkey twizzler’ of architecture. All the buildings will be completed over the next 12 months [...]
open house london
It is hard work pounding London’s streets in order to visit some hidden gems of architecture but nonetheless extremely worthwhile. It is because one gets to hear the project architect describing in great detail just what has been achieved and the impact it has made on people’s lives. Never more than 28 years old these [...]
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Visited as part of OpenHouse London the Agar Day Centre for children in NW1 provides sixty six places under the sure start banner. It won a civic trust award for the architect www.haverstock.com
marcus
As Autumn drifts toward us it was great to be reminded of the connection a house should have to its garden. Last night at the V&A Nina Campbell waxed, quite lyrically, on her opulent interiors whilst Garden & Landscape designer Marcus Barnett extolled the virtues of shape, shadow and form. Marcus’s schemes eschew the formulaic; [...]
Londres
London is awash with culture. At the V&A this Friday Marcus Barnett the Landscape Designer will be taking the floor discussing his work having twice won Gold at the Chelsea Flower Show . Then on Friday 17th September Alain de Botton will be presenting his new architecture project. Then there is the London Design Festival [...]
speedtalk
Kent SMS attended the NLA breakfast at store street on 3o july to hear the great & good discuss the value of good school design. peter murray chaired the event and various prominent architects spoke for a timely few minutes before peter jumped up to signal their imminent departure from the rostrum. clearly some extremely [...]
two wheels for hire
although these bikes weigh in at an astonishing 23 Kg they really do fulfil a very useful function allowing you to propel yourself around London. i detest the tube & what can be better than sailing along cutting up white van man on his mobile phone.bliss.
our ‘enry
lost on most of us henry moore still has the power to generate emotion. as bryan robertson the exhibition curator at the tate remarked ” his work is grim and on occasion tragic. there is no easy reassurance in it. it is anything but gentle.
