Posts Tagged ‘architecture’

London's Lost Theatres and Music Halls Index – [via Fimb]

Inside Grey Gardens – The New York Times > Home & Garden > Slide Show > Slide 8 of 10 – Interesting photo article on Grey Gardens, which I am mainly linking to because I love this photo; all the angles of light and shapes which suggest that maybe the architect knew what they were [...]

I'm still working my way through the London boroughs trying to get photos in all of them. Going through the list and seeing which ones I haven't been to yet has been quite interesting. There are the obvious exceptions, those boroughs out in the suburbs (Redbridge, Merton, Croydon, Havering etc.) which I have to make [...]

I've been thinking lately that I really ought to go back to the Tower Bridge museum again. I used to love visiting there when I was a little girl, but I haven't been there for since the 80s. Long overdue a return, I'd say. I love living in a city where the fairy-tale fantasy of [...]

The Quietus | Features | Things I Have Learned | Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley On The Architecture Of London – "Everyone loves the Trellick Tower apart from me." And me. Great interview with renowned Londoner Bob Stanley. [via teflon.tumblr.com]

Fantastic Journal: Books and Architecture – I pretty much wanted to quote this entire post, so I figure I might as well just link to it. I especially like the paragraph about circuits of influence, and the reminder that if you look beyond those, your work won't look exactly the same as everyone else's.

via cityofsound: "Not all piazzas should be full of people," he says. "Sometimes it's enough to have one tree, and space. Silence, as well as noise." (I haven't had time to read the whole article, which looks interesting, but that quote was too good not to repeat.)

After visiting the Steiner House, I wandered off to church, All Saints Margaret Street. Having been disappointed by the lack of expected craziness at St Martin's Gospel Oak the day before, All Saints proved to be exactly what I was after in a "crazy" Victorian church. Even starting from the gothic exterior, with its dramatic [...]

After the visiting The Royal Institution, it was on down to Piccadilly to see the offices of the Linnean Society at Burlington House. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see any samples from their archives of 200 year old plants or anything nifty like that, but there was a pretty awesome Victorian chair which had been [...]

I didn't really plan for Open House properly this year (although I did much better than last year), which as just as well, because the transport was so screwy last weekend that I would never have made it in time to half the things I'd planned to see. Instead, I picked a list of things [...]