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- Canoeing London - 020 020.co.uk
Canoeing in London. Canoe clubs for paddlers, racers and tourists. Canoeing and kayaking for all levels, river touring and wild water racing
- Thames River Adventures thamesriveradventures.co.uk
- Edmonton Canoe Group edmonton-canoe.org.uk
- Microloans in Hackney | Feature | Society | The Observer guardian.co.uk
When you start dealing with people with unpredictable lifestyles and with income that might be variable month by month, you can't just use the same computerised systems of default and interest that you use for people in regular salaried employment. Muhammad Yunus's microfinance model, which operated in parts of the world where everyone's lifestyle was precarious, had shown that. You had to know exactly who you were lending to, and establish more intimate and flexible models based on that knowledge.
#microfinance #development #london #money #poverty #uk #economics #hackney #community #banking#credit - London Gardens Online londongardensonline.org.uk
Aims to develop a dedicated web-based resource for information relating to London's historic parks, gardens and other green open spaces.
- Home | St John Hotel London stjohnhotellondon.com
The St John Hotel will comprise of a restaurant, open for breakfast, elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea and pre-theatre dinner through dinner to the early hours. There will be fifteen bedrooms to include the top floor suite and a bar for restaurant and hotel guests and their guests.
The V&A will be staging a contemporary architecture exhibition in June 2010 exploring the power of small spaces. A number of international architects have been asked to design structures which explore notions of refuge and 'retreat'. These buildings which examine themes such as play, work, performance and study will be built at full-scale in various spaces within the V&A.
New London walking route.
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Starting in 2004 I have been working on design projects which revolve around the collections of objects. The objects are normally collected in large quantities categorized and assembled in a way that transforms their meaning. My work is about giving banal and overlooked objects a new significance. The finished piece of work takes various forms such as chandeliers, installations, functional and sculptural objects.
- Tom Roper's Weblog: North doesn't matter roper.org.uk
The Legible London project began in 2003 as an initial study working with the central London boroughs and business fora, aiming not just to improve signs, but to offer far better guidance for walkers. The project was to run a prototype, a measurable trial to prove the concept. They set about developing a taxonomy of walkers, but when they had discovered sixty different types and were still counting they gave up, and instead measured walking activity along two axes, the walkers' knowledge of the area and their speed, defined on a continuum from strolling to striding.
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- A first step towards freeing London’s data | London DataStore data.london.gov.uk
The prototype Datastore for London. This is where we’ll be releasing all of the Greater London Authority’s data for all Londoners to see and use free of charge.
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- We Are Sustain wearesustain.com
A creative/eco converted warehouse factory space five minutes walk from both Liverpool Street and Old Street stations. With offices and studios, we offer creative and social businesses an affordable, friendly and relaxed environment to work and collaborate with like-minded people.
- headlessness - bat boxes headlessness.com
James built bat boxes. Brilliant.
- Hidden London | Kingsbury hidden-london.com
Because Kingsbury is not a highly desirable area, most of Trobridge’s enchanting homes are not in the condition they deserve to be. After the war, Wembley council built a major housing estate, destroying most of Kingsbury’s historic buildings in the process.
On Saturday, a new urban advertising screen was turned on in London. This one’s a little different to the norm though: it’s 176m above the ground, 60m wide and 5m tall. Oh, and it wraps around the BT Tower.
- 69 Colebrooke Row 69colebrookerow.com
A new cocktail bar and lounge at 69 Colebrooke Row, Islington, London N1 8AA, just round the corner from The Charles Lamb.
- Hackney Citizen» Features Homes » Furniture second to none hackneycitizen.co.uk
Second-hand furniture shops in and around Hackney.
A workshop and performance. It involves people from all walks of life making electronic sounds with one another, out in the world and in the open air.
- The fourth plinth: it was just Big Brother all over again | Art and design | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
If One & Other is an image of British democratic life in our time, it is a pessimistic one. It is a portrait of a society in which people will try anything to get their voices heard, even stand on a plinth, but where no one can hear what they're saying.
"Last month, stretches of the river Lee were included on the list of 117 "bodies of water" across England and Wales that, according a new European rating system, are now classified as "bad". In total, just five of the 6,114 rivers surveyed received the "pristine" classification; three-quarters failed to attain the "good" grading."
"A new Belgian Bar in Stoke Newington, 5 minutes' walk from Church Street, just off the High Street on Northwold Road." Yay, Belgian beer without the hike.
- Albion Cafe, Bakery and Food Store albioncaff.co.uk
Typical British caff food, nothing challenging or complicated, just straightforward hearty ingredients and recipes.
Map of primary areas where height is constrained through the definition of the Viewing Corridors, Lateral or Background assessment areas of protected vistas.
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We're a 20% company. For one day of our working weeks (sometimes more) we work on projects which have mostly non-commercial aims, like digital work for charities, or things which are just good fun.
- London city farm Mudchute Park and Farm mudchute.org
Farm, cafe and park all rolled up.
Grazing lunch options in Noho.
- Stephen Bayley's opinion on the battle for Chelsea Barracks | Art and design | The Observer guardian.co.uk
"The fabulous absurdity of the media "debate" between Prince Charles and Richard Rogers is that each is a historical relic. The prince is a throwback to the 18th century and beyond, the architect is a suntanned survivor of the 20th. We are now in the 21st, a century with priorities of its own. Charles's unreflective and ludicrous enthusiasm for anachronism in architecture has its equivalent in Rogers' dogmatic and doctrinaire insistence on aesthetic conflict with metal and glass."
This Noble Art. Society of Revisionist Typographers. Letterpress. Printers & Purveyors of Typographic Design
- Pirata London - Your Digital Production Partners piratalondon.com
IA is a brand new London based label, owned and run by Clare Thwaites; DJ Clare Large.
Ping Pong now delivering to homes and offices. Happy and sad that they can't reach my house yet.
- Crumbs and Doilies Cupcakes crumbsanddoilies.co.uk
Spiritual home - or, at the very least, London pied à terre - of the cupcake.
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- StackOverflow DevDays stackoverflow.carsonified.com
$99, London on 28th October. Devtastic but subjects look good.
- Chatsworth Road E5 chatsworthroade5.co.uk
New weekly street market in E5.
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- Poilâne, boulangerie en ligne poilane.fr
We source our sea salt from Guérande. Our flour is exclusively stone-ground. We work closely with our flour makers to use the very best varieties of wheat. And, we use a piece of dough from the previous batch of bread – the sourdough – as a starter for the next batch. The type of oven used to bake bread is also important. We bake our breads in wood-fired ovens. These ovens are fed with waste wood that cannot be used for any other industry.
- Jack O'Shea - Butcher jackoshea.com
- London Music Meet or Freelance Club londonmusicmeet.tumblr.com
A weekly get together between those working in music. Intended to provide a working environment whilst also sharing questions, knowledge and gossip about music and the industry. Every Thursday at Leon in Spitalfield Market. 2pm onwards. Wi-fi available
- Land of Kings landofkings.co.uk
Dalston music fest, 16th & 17th April 2009.
Via headlessness.