A quick look at the papers from this weekend throws up an interesting development in East London. Robert Booth uncovered plans for a £35m mega-church with 8000 seat capacity in the Sunday Times. On Monday Jonathan Glancey waxed lyrical about plans from the Abbey Mills mosque in The Guardian.
After anxiously tip-toeing through the politics [...]
Breaking and Entering, written and directed by Anthony Minghella, centres on the faltering marriage and burgeoning career of a London-based landscape architect, Will, played by Jude Law. He runs a practice called Green Effect and the film kicks off with a party at its office celebrating a successful pitch to redevelop the King’s Cross area. [...]
Welcome to the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale fact fans; prepared to be soaked in statistics, courtesy of this year’s director Ricky Burdett, centennial professor of architecture and urbanism at the London School of Economics. We start with a real beauty: 2005 was, apparently, the year in which those living in great urban centres outnumbered their [...]
Before we heard the news of Alan Fletcher’s death, we had already commissioned Emily King, curator of an upcoming exhibition at the Design Museum about Alan to write a piece about how she approached his work. We thought it was a superbly written glimpse into his world at the time. But it takes on even [...]
