Category Archives: UK

Barking from Without

cross-posted from barking-assemblage.org
Barking from Without is part of the 2010 Cities Methodologies exhibition and conference organised by the UCL Urban Lab. The exhibition is taking place at the Slade Research Centre on Woburn Square from 5 to 7 May 2010.

Barking from Without is an interactive installation presenting material from an ongoing case study of the [...]

Le mauvais temps des fêtes

Moving algae lights

Double-click on video to play.

Astro-turf river

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Photos taken at New River Park, London, on a strange Saturday morning.
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Le bestiaire anglais

Durant les nuits d’été, le chant des merles noirs laisse place aux hurlements nocturnes des renards. Oui, les terribles hurlements des doux petits renards roux. Avant qu’ils ne viennent me réveiller en pleine nuit en “jouant” sous ma fenêtre, me laissant ainsi découvrir l’identité de ces spectres, j’avais cru en une chauve-souris géante. Sans blague. [...]

Lloyd’s sublime picturesque

This case study was presented as part of the History of British Architecture module at the Bartlett School of Architecture.
The work takes the form of a fold out pamphlet. You can download the full PDF here.
[...] London’s Lloyd’s Building has been described as a ‘mechanical cathedral’, a ‘heroic’ monument to modernism built during one of [...]

The little shop of afterlives

From wild beasts to household pets, “Get Stuffed” (not kidding), the taxidermist at Essex and Cross, can fulfil all your heart’s desires for fake hunting trophies and silent furry companionship. Even poor Mittens can be given a second chance as an interior decoration (bottom centre). Well, as long as you weren’t too traumatised by Stephen [...]

“Reading” the National Gallery

Originally posted by a friend on the Bartlett Think-Tank:
We are very excited to bring you great news: the blog “Reading” The National Gallery was finally launched on the web. This blog was founded by a research student as a project-based research from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College of London. The intention is to [...]

Borough Market Polyphony

“Borough Market Polyphony” is a work in progress done as part of “The Creative Thesis” workshop at UCL run by the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Slade School of Fine Arts. The goal of the exercise is to create an object that addresses the relationship between practice and theory within a PhD research project.
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Borough Market

This series of photographs was taken at Borough Market on the south bank of the Thames. Read a short history of what is arguably London’s oldest market here -from the market’s own viewpoint. These photographs can also be viewed on my Picasa page.
Yes, there is indeed not a soul on these photos… They were taken [...]