#london (418 links)
- Another Studio postcarden.com
Architectural models of London (and other) landmarks.
- The Shard: beacon of the left's skyline guardian.co.uk
- Heygate Community Betrayal [page 1] london-se1.co.uk
- The Green London Way greenlondonway.com
Via kevan.
- London ‘Least Car-Dependent City’ londonist.com
- New Statesman - The tax haven in the heart of Britain newstatesman.com
One of the biggest, most silent players behind so much offshore activity has been identified: a Teflon-like, medieval institution, wrapped around the neck of Britain and dedicated to keeping finance strong and free.
- BBC News - How to read London bbc.co.uk
What you need to navigate around [London] is not just a map but a map with the dimension of time attached
Via blech.
- diamond geezer diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk
"It's been spun as "transforming the surrounding area into a vibrant new metropolitan quarter", whereas in reality it's just an aerial sideshow to lure tourists somewhere new. The engineering's an impressive achievement, to be sure, and you'll probably come once for a ride and help make it an overnight success. But Boris's unholy alliance of public money and corporate branding is more about making a statement than fulfilling a need, and hangs uncomfortably across East London's skyline."
- A Profile of London by A.A. Gill - NYTimes.com travel.nytimes.com
"You can see, in other words, the whole of London, until now an unencompassable splodge that could last have been captured in a single view perhaps 200 years ago, to its perimeter and beyond. Close to, familiar and not-small objects, such as the Gherkin and HMS Belfast, look like large toys. It is both implausible and real, something well-known seen from an unprecedented place. It's hard to know what to do except gawp." Open the public viewing galleries already!
Wondering how I missed Spitalfields Life until now.
The first ever Chelsea Fringe will begin on Saturday 19th May and run for three weeks, at a host of different venues and settings across London.
Via kevan.
- Barefoot Running UK barefootrunninguk.com
- Minimalist City Transit Map Posters laughingsquid.com
- Paul Catherall paulcatherall.com
London-based printmaker and illustrator. Needs a new, non-Flash site.
- Shard London Bridge Summit at dusk | 360 Panorama | London Photographer willpearson.co.uk
- Prints for Walls printsforwalls.co.uk
Good London pictures (panoramas in particular) from Wish in Herne Hill.
Quite upsetting.
- Central London Budget Eats guardian.co.uk
Useful Guardian guide.
- Live Bus Departures | Transport for London countdown.tfl.gov.uk
- Let's meet and work – places to freelance around London letsmeetandwork.com
- Co-Work Borough | Co-Work co-work.co
Coworking space in London Bridge / Borough.
- Central Working London, Office Space, Networking London | Central Working centralworking.com · Archived on
Coworking space near TCR.
Euston, we have a problem
- The Dulwich Estate dulwichestate.co.uk