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The Emergence of the Jellyfish
Aug. 11th, 2010 11:41 pmI said I'd send this to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
morganmuffle, but as it's kind of cool, I'm going to share it with all of you.
In a small playground on Union St in the Borough something a little different has been taking place. Here the Oikos Project have been at work building this:
The Jellyfish Theatre, a theatre built entirely from recycled and reclaimed materials.
They've got 2 plays showing there this autumn as part of the project, both playing on the climate change theme.
Best of all, as just discovered looking at the site again, locals get to go free, which settles when I shall be going to see Protozoa. Shame I'm away on 28 August, will just have to find another time to see Oikos.
morganmuffle, but as it's kind of cool, I'm going to share it with all of you.In a small playground on Union St in the Borough something a little different has been taking place. Here the Oikos Project have been at work building this:
The Jellyfish Theatre, a theatre built entirely from recycled and reclaimed materials.
They've got 2 plays showing there this autumn as part of the project, both playing on the climate change theme.
Best of all, as just discovered looking at the site again, locals get to go free, which settles when I shall be going to see Protozoa. Shame I'm away on 28 August, will just have to find another time to see Oikos.
What To Do With An Old Church
Sep. 24th, 2009 07:58 pmThis is an excellent idea for something to do with an old church:
Convert it into a book shop! How ace is that?
The church itself is the 14th century Dominican church in Maarstricht, which ceased to be used by the Dominicans when the place was invaded by Napoleon. It's now part of the Selexyz chain.
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Convert it into a book shop! How ace is that?
The church itself is the 14th century Dominican church in Maarstricht, which ceased to be used by the Dominicans when the place was invaded by Napoleon. It's now part of the Selexyz chain.
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inhabitat)Branching out at Regent's Park
Aug. 12th, 2009 12:51 pmApparently there's a couple of giant treehouses in Regent's park until 6 September
Now these I've got to see!
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Now these I've got to see!
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This is shiney:
It's the world's first floating apartment block! It's designed by Dutch architect Koen Olthuis and given how much of the Netherlands is reclaimed wetlands this is probably a useful thing for them to be building.
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It's the world's first floating apartment block! It's designed by Dutch architect Koen Olthuis and given how much of the Netherlands is reclaimed wetlands this is probably a useful thing for them to be building.
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A Bridge Too Far...
Jun. 3rd, 2009 01:54 pmThe Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects is currently running a competition to design an inhabited London bridge:
Full brief (pdf)
The entries will apparently be exhibited on 11 July. I'm curious to see what they come up with.
This brief is for an architectural ideas competition to mark the 800th anniversary of the opening of the first London Bridge in 1209AD. Old London Bridge was an inhabited bridge and the competition asks today’s designers to imagine a new version of the inhabited bridge, based on the present structure which is deemed for these purposes to be strong enough to carry buildings on its deck.
Full brief (pdf)
The entries will apparently be exhibited on 11 July. I'm curious to see what they come up with.
Yesterday, I decided to take my life in my own hands and wonder down to Peckham without a knife proof vest, to visit the South London Gallery.
Stereotypes aside, Peckham is quite an interesting place to visit, not least because it has the most bizarre library building ever:
Most colourful library in the world
Originally uploaded by hmmm_tea
Even more bizarre on the other side
Originally uploaded by hmmm_tea
Highly colourful, lambda-shaped with strange wire caging under the overhang. The sort of building they wouldn't have let them build anywhere else, it's excellent!
The Gallery itself was quite quaint, but the exhibition they had on (Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci's Untitled 2006-2009), was a bit on the pretentious side.
On the way back, I explored Burgess Park, which turns out is actually a Tardis. It looks really small on Old Kent Road and yet it stretches all the way to Camberwell (and, rather usefully at the time, Peckham via the Surrey Canal path).
Wondering through the park I stumbled across this, which seems an interesting thing to do to an old pub:
The bizarre fate of William IV
Originally uploaded by hmmm_tea
No idea what's it's covered in or why, but it's strangely cool in a bizarre sort of way.
Stereotypes aside, Peckham is quite an interesting place to visit, not least because it has the most bizarre library building ever:
Most colourful library in the world
Originally uploaded by hmmm_tea
Even more bizarre on the other side
Originally uploaded by hmmm_tea
Highly colourful, lambda-shaped with strange wire caging under the overhang. The sort of building they wouldn't have let them build anywhere else, it's excellent!
The Gallery itself was quite quaint, but the exhibition they had on (Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci's Untitled 2006-2009), was a bit on the pretentious side.
On the way back, I explored Burgess Park, which turns out is actually a Tardis. It looks really small on Old Kent Road and yet it stretches all the way to Camberwell (and, rather usefully at the time, Peckham via the Surrey Canal path).
Wondering through the park I stumbled across this, which seems an interesting thing to do to an old pub:
The bizarre fate of William IV
Originally uploaded by hmmm_tea
No idea what's it's covered in or why, but it's strangely cool in a bizarre sort of way.
Tate Modern Extension
May. 4th, 2009 05:42 pmSo this is what they're doing around the back of Tate Modern
oooo, shiney!
Was worried for a few minutes when I saw the photo in the local paper that they were building it on the front, but apparently it's around the back :-)
oooo, shiney!
Was worried for a few minutes when I saw the photo in the local paper that they were building it on the front, but apparently it's around the back :-)
