Posts under ‘architecture’

I spent last Saturday exploring two different industrial sites in south London. The first was the big hot ticket, a tour of the Brunel tunnels, open to pedestrians for the first time in almost 150 years. This was a great opportunity to see what was once known as the Eighth Wonder of the World, especially [...]

(Working off a backlog of blogposts that are knocking around my hard drive — apologies in advance for the flurry of posts you'll get today.)
A couple of weekends ago a group of us went to visit Chislehurst Caves for Jodi's birthday, and it was great! I found it sort of amazing that there's this huge [...]

If I look out of my kitchen window in the winter, I can see a funny little tower way off at the edge of the horizon (I can't see it in the summer because of that tree in front the window). It's the only remaining piece of what was once a significant market space, opened [...]

Last Saturday I spent the day at the seaside in Margate with the Shabby Seaside Appreciation Society. The day didn't start off at its best — our excitement at getting one of the new fast-track Javelin trains at St. Pancras soon dwindled when we found ourselves an hour behind schedule due to "a death on [...]

One of the many things on my List Of Cool And Weird Things To See In London (a list forever growing so long and unwieldy I've actually stopped writing stuff down) has been to go and visit Binks the Cat, which I read about in some "offbeat London" book or other (I forget which). [...]

Welcome to fabulous Las Vegas

It's a bit of a Circus

A new Frontier

Keep an eye out for white tigers,

dragons,

and flying horses

Westward Ho!

See more Vegas pics here. All my USA 2000-01 pics are here

A selection of photographs from my first trip around the USA almost a decade ago.

artist Jason Hoelscher at the original Korova Milk Bar, Lower East Side, NYC

lines and stripes on Brooklyn Bridge, NYC
taken the day we went to see Noisegate at the Brooklyn Anchorage [reviewed years later, here]

I think maybe only a handful will [...]

On Sunday afternoon I went on a tour given by Owen Hatherley (who, I discovered, is neither nasty, brutal nor short, but instead rather lanky and very nice). It took us to the northern end of the Piccadilly Line, visiting the modernist stations commissioned by Frank Pick (a bit of a design hero here [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, I spent last weekend looking at more arty stuff. It started in Trafalgar Square on Saturday morning to see my friend Myk Reeve posing on the fourth plinth as part of Antony Gormley's One and Other. He was the fifth of six people that I've met to appear [...]

Sometimes it does a soul good to get away from the built-up spaces of a city — even a city with a wide and sweeping, ever-changing tidal river like the Thames — and head out to the coast and walk on a beach for a few hours. Such was the reasoning behind last week's visit [...]