Wednesday Jaunt

Waterfront London, Rediscovering the rivers and canals of the capital @ NLA

An investigation into current and proposed waterfront developments in the capital. Water has the potential to enhance any landscape. In London water has several key issues to consider: economic, increase property value and the potential for a transportation network; biodiversity, encourage aquatic flora and fauna to recolinize pollutant free water; cultural, trade on the water and around it is what made London what it is today.
Download the catalogue here.


Londons' lost rivers

Henk Hofstra's blue road in Drachten (Holland) @ Wooster Collective
I personally think that a future London should embrace its waterfronts and waterways. How about resurfacing the lost rivers of london? Or create a subterranean waternetwork for boating commuters/troglodites...

River Tyburn @ sub-urban

Three Mills Wall River @ derelictlondon
This is exactly the scenario I believe is crying out for attention. Can landscape architecture help? Obviously it a dump that needs to be cleared. But can the surrounding area be regenerated and populated to stop anarchistic behaviour, should supermarkets only allowed to be constructed a certain distance away from an open watersource, can it be treated as a framework for nature to take hold?
NLA here

International Lecture Series: FAT @ The Bartlett

"Theory is futile..." - Sean Griffiths

Islington Square
Describing the consultation process with residents, of Islington Square - Social Housing, New Islington, Manchester 2006, Sean showed an image of a homemade bar in the corner of some ones livingroom and described it as,
"A spatial expression of culture."
which I thought was a great comment.
FAT seem to enjoy a subversive angle to how they confront a project. Their facades, in my opinion their most exciting element, borrow pattern from a local vernacular and distort it to create a new but also instinctively recogniseable form.
FAT here
The Bartlet here


Anthony McCall @ Serpentine Gallery

Interactive light experience. Sheets of tangible white luminecence create enclosures with etherial beauty.
Could this be used in the landscape to create corridors or ghostly apparitions that populate space at night? Just like Sony did here. All those photoshop images of proposals filled with ghosts could actually become realaised!

Serpentine Gallery here
Anthony McCall here