And so it opens. Europe’s tallest building, The Shard by Renzo Piano. As of today you can get yourself a £25 lift ride to the top. Nice day for it. Did you know it’s actually 10m shorter than The Eiffel tower? The ET is unenclosed and thus doesn’t effect the Europe’s Tallest Building status. Woop […]
Exciting times lie ahead in London if web-chat is correct. We could be acquiring our very own version of New York’s High Line – a disused railway-turned-sky-park that we mentioned here before. The Limehouse Curve – how we feeling about that name? – is a 120m long Victorian viaduct stretching across Commercial Road in Tower Hamlets. […]
A tiny design history lesson to start this week… I learnt about Christopher Dresser when I saw his work in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery a few days ago. Born in Glasgow in 1834, he has been described as the first industrial designer and was influential in the UK, France and the US. Nice jugs aren’t they? […]
This just in from our correspondent in Munich… Can you tell what it is? Let’s pull back a bit… Folks, give yourself a pat on the back if you guessed right – it’s a Lego house number! Or as our continental roving reporter has it, ‘the undersung hero of the house numbering world. This is the beauty […]
I shocked even myself on friday night when, instead of throwing myself at the takaway menu drawer – surely you have one in your home? – I took myself off to Deptford for the Cockpit Arts open studios. Dissapointingly I didn’t run into Mary Portas who’s been tweeting about Cockpit lately. But, I did discover from designer Naomi […]