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ARCHITECTURE OF DENSITY

Friday, November 25, 2011

Actually, I’m pretty tired of the usual images of Eastern tiger cities – skyscrapers, people crammed in subways, shoddy alleyways – not that I’m not intrigued like everyone else by the rise of Asia, but I’ve just seen them way too often. No exception to the rule is German but China-based photographer Michael Wolf, who [...]

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WANDERING COMMA

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Opening tomorrow is Ryan McGinley’s new exhibition titled Wandering Comma (whatever that is supposed to mean…), at Alison Jacques Gallery in London, where he will be showing seven new large scale works – maybe for the first time functioning not so much as a series, but rather as single excerpts of his continuing practice of [...]

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ARCHIZINES

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Whereas, over in London, Elias Redstone, the founder of the online architectural magazine library Archizines, has curated a show of 60 architectural titles at the renowned Architectural Association, including our almost sold-out issue #18 on MVRDV. Follow his week of guest-posting some of his personal favourites over at It’s Nice That this week, or even [...]

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THE OIL TANKS

Friday, September 16, 2011

Tate Modern has announced the opening in 2012 of the first phase of its expansion plan, The Tate Modern Project. In 2005, Herzog & de Meuron were commissioned by the Tate to design a new development which would connect Southwark with the Thames and provide much improved open, public space. As part of this development, [...]

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YOU HAVE TO SMASH THEM UP

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Destructive transmutation in the penumbra of the new Olympic Stadium on the tenth anniversary of the most influential destructive event of the 21st Century. Scrap Club takes place by a site that has probably seen the most destruction and rebuilding done in London since World War II. These grounds shall now also bear the fall [...]

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48H MAGAZINE

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Jeremy Leslie of MagCulture and Steve Watson of Stack will be hosting a little weekend magazine extravaganza at London’s Royal Festival Hall, which kicked off about 5 minutes ago: as part of the South Bank’s festival on ‘Power and Production’, itself part of a larger ‘Festival of Britain’ (sigh – imagine Germany doing that…), they [...]

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THE BLACK BBC

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Two decades ago, the rapper Chuck D (Public Enemy), described rap music as the “the black CNN”. Rappers in London found their own way to describe the political and social background that led to the English riots in the past week. Here’s an excellent and in-depth article about the subject by writer Dan Hancox in [...]

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WHY FRIDGES?

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Films are being shown on fridges, in London. Here’s why.

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CONCRETE OUTDOORS ACTIVITIES

Monday, May 30, 2011

Plattformer, the artist collective that brought you the first DIY concrete table tennis table in London, just launched their latest outdoors object: The Feast Table in London’s Arundel Square. All their projects are put into effect with groups of local children that are thereby introduced to the art of concrete casting. Their most famous project [...]

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CLOSE EYES TO EXIT

Friday, April 1, 2011

Befitting their slightly twisted sense of humour, our friends at the glorious illustration collective Le Gun decided to launch the fifth and latest issue of their eponymous annual magazine (unless it takes them two years to compile, that is) today, on April Fool’s Day. To mark the occasion in style, they’ve thrown in an exhibition [...]

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