I to I

inner city snail

Sarah — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:00:59 +0000

brilliant and hilarious!

see more HERE

found via AMNP

Venice Biennale

Sarah — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:11:10 +0000

“Gustafson Porter has been commissioned to create a landscape installation at this year’s Venice Biennale.

The appointment of the London-based firm, which designed the Diana Memorial in Kensington Gardens, marks the first time in the biennale’s 11-year history that a major landscape installation will be featured.

Neil Porter, director of Gustafson Porter – which has been appointed in Venice alongside its Seattle-based sister company Gustafson Guthrie Nichol – said: ‘Landscape architecture is a greatly neglected subject from a curatorial point of view, so we are hugely excited by the opportunity of engaging with visitors at the biennale.’

The installation, called Towards Paradise, will be sited at the end of the Arsenale, within the overgrown grounds of the former Church of the Virgins, a Benedictine nunnery that was destroyed in the late 1800s.

The garden will have five main spaces, with zones dedicated to ‘reflection, commemoration, conversation, contemplation and enlightenment’.

According to Porter, Towards Paradise will ‘take the visitor on a journey through earthly dilemmas, passing from life to death and towards paradise’.”

SOURCE- Architects’ Journal

Lean on Me

Sarah — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:03:30 +0000

Leaning-molds are an innovative furniture wall-system created for public spaces where, instead of sitting, an individual can comfortably lean against it for support. It is composed of two molds made of recycled plastic that are identically shaped. These pieces fit together like a puzzle. Together, they can transform a space, creating infinite patterns. They can be used either individually or in a composition.

By Maruja Fuentes

via pan-dan

kingston gateway phase 1

Sarah — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:30:33 +0000

Kingston Gateway Phase II

Sarah — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:38:25 +0000

Kingston Gateway Phase III

Sarah — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:00:56 +0000

plates for planners!

Sarah — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:37:45 +0000

city plates by notNeutral, (above is the New York design). Personally i’m not a fan of the design but would make for a great geeky gift!

via Moco Loco

Sarah — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:03:04 +0000

Guerilla Gardening

Sarah — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:50:44 +0000

In the arty realm of Old Street the guerilla gardeners attacked. The neglected patch of earth never stood a chance, in a flurry of activity the space was cleared and the planting began.

First some box, then the ivy finished off with scattered seeds left like time bombs just waiting for the right trigger.

http://www.guerrillagardening.org/index.html

Friday Late Subterranea

Sarah — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:55:18 +0000

Another triumph for the V and A late series. The main event although far from the best was he unveiling of the new V&A tunnel installation (above) by architect CJ Lim. Visitors to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London can now enter the building through a subterranean garden. ‘Seasons through the Looking Glass’, an installation inspired by Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’, is located at the tunnel entrance to the V&A. . . . it was somewhat disappointing

‘Nighthaunts’
National Art Library
A reading by Sukhdev Sandhu, from his recent book ‘Nighthaunts’, an exploration of nocturnal London and a reflection on the nature of the urban night. Accompanied by music by sonic artist Scanner. . . FANTASTIC the dark library allowed the mind to focus on the voice of the reader so you became completely absorbed by it . . . spine-tingling

The website that preceded the book is beautiful definitely worth a look – http://nighthaunts.org.uk/

Stephen Walter’s ‘Island’ and ‘Kensington & Chelsea’
Stephen Walter’s intricate mappings of the London landscape where objects and places are slowly taken over by their symbolic representations, creating forests of symbols and places where every inch is mapped and quantified for human purpose. . . AWESOME!

Ben Wilson – Architecture Now ‘up on the roof’

short talk on the future of roof design, accompanied by small display of existing projects