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Focus on Slow Food
Market stalls in a prominent public space between Waterloo station and the South bank, 5.5.08.
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The Cans Festival. 05.05.08
Under the arches of waterloo bridge 28,544 people got togeather to spray. Banksy and many other 'biggies' created amongst the masses:
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A dramatic SNOG:
Advertising the DEGREE SHOW:
Swiss Cottage
'the presence and absence of water suggests activity and tranquillity with equal ease. A strongly moulded land form, together with lush planting, provide a striking context for the water element.' The shallow paddling pool in the center is fed by a bore hole system which is also supposed to be used to water vegetation. However, on my visit, as so common with bore hole water harvesting systems, it was not maintained and the pool was dry. The landscape was a disapointment, and the not so dramatic mounds of earth were balding!
Gustafson Porter PR 2006
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Adjacent to the Gustafson & Porter landscape lies the contrastingly inspiring
Library/ fitness center/ Multiuse Community center
Designed by Basil Spence in 1960's. It had huge presence, which is reflected in its popularity. The community center, Library & Fitness Center, Cresh & Cafe bring the community togeather in the otherwise drab, car dominated area.
Jean Pouvre @ Tate & Design Museum
Jean Pouvre's Tropical Maison is currently outside the Tate Modern. The tropical maison is a prefabricated house designed in the 1950's, it is made from sheet steel panels and fitted with sliding aluminium wall panels. Prouvre beleived in mass production of building components and funiture and all the components are flat, light and less than 4m wide for economy of manufacture and easy of construction.Incorporated blue glass port holes protect against UV Rays
The Design museum has a partnering exhibtion which shows Jean Prouves other work, he was an engineer primarily, and an architect/ furniture designer as a result. Architects such as Richard Rodgers still draw inspiration from his work. Function comes first and his various works are unfrilly, neccesities,
the arches in the picture below are repeated in numerous designs.
industrial methods of producing an egg
Image from Bill Mollisons book: 'Permaculture. A Designers Manual'
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