2012-05-03
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Anthony Gormley’s Quantum Cloud on the O2 Pier by Sandra Lousada.
Previously: Quantum Cloud construction (via); Robin Hood Gardens by Sandra Lousada. (This location is barely a mile, but thirty or more years, from the other photograph.)
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Robin Hood Gardens, Poplar, London, 1967-72
This is a cropped version of a photograph by Sandra Lousada, subject of a small show at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Lousada is giving a talk at the V&A on the 14th of May, 2012.
Image via Google Image Search, Yellow Umbrella, and Treehugger.
2012-05-02
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A photo of the Savile Row Protest against the coming of Abercrombie and Fitch as organised by The Chap (“a journal for the modern gentleman), posted by John Hawkins to Pinwheel (which is still in private beta).
More coverage: Stephanie Wolff’s Flickr set; a comment piece by Gustav Temple in the Guardian.
2012-04-29
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William Forsyth’s Scattered Clouds installation at the Midland Goods Shed, London, part of a Sadlers Wells / Tate retrospective of his work in 2009. (via Larissa)
2012-04-28
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CityDashboard: London (via), by the CASA research lab at University College London.
There’s a fuller list of contributors and sources on the about page, along with this disclaimer:
CityDashboard is an early prototype and should be considered to be “alpha quality” - expect data feeds to break regularly. Please do not rely on information display in CityDashboard, as it may be erroneous. For example, if the CASA Geiger counter is showing a high reading, please do not panic! Somebody in the office might just have placed some Brazil nuts or another calibration source in front of the detector.
2012-04-24
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Two photographs of escalators from the Magnum collection, as posted to Slate as part of their series on walking.
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The indie bookstore is currently based at 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, but will move to 107-109 in around two years’ time after Noved Investment Holdings, owned by five members of the Foyle family, recently purchased the 74,780 sq ft area which houses the Central St Martin School of Art. ”
Foyles flagship store to move at The Bookseller, from February 2011.
Despite this being announced over a year ago, I’d either missed it (or forgotten) until reading the Independent’s (rather depressing) article on the ‘bland makeover’ of Soho (via mondoagogo).
Still, at least it’s not moving far (and I’m sure it’s changed much more since the death of Miss Foyle than it will by shifting down a few doors).
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Four of the many, many different map overlays at the London Profiler site. Sadly the data is a little out of date (it looks like it hasn’t been updated since around 2008; I first saw it in 2009), but it’s still fun to play with for a while.
(The images are captioned, but if you’re really curious about what’s displayed, I’d urge you to check out the maps in full.)
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iamdanw, via headlessness (from 2009):
London Sight-lines. These are the places where construction is restricted to protect the most interesting views of famous landmarks.
What’s interesting about looking at this now is that the Shard is clearly in the middle of several of the Protected Vistas, but perhaps it being behind rather than in front of St Paul’s helped it achieve planning permission.
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Screenshots of Oliver O’Brien’s Geodemographics of Housing in Great Britain, a map of the 2010 Index of Multiple Depravation in the style of Charles Booth’s famous Poverty Map of the late 1800s. Read more here.
The last three photos show one of the more interesting (to me, anyway) parts of this map: the divide between Waltham Forest (largely red and orange) and Redbridge (largely green) in east London. The areas always felt somewhat similar in terms of housing stock to me, but they show up very differently here. Perhaps part of that is transport related: the railway you can see running through the latter is the Central line, which goes directly to the middle of the city.
