Brighton in the summer

All the ingredients: Duke of York picturehouse, supper at the Gingerman, D went running on the seafront while I ambled around the North Laines in search of seaside anthems. One question however: when did Brighton become only stag night and hen territory. Let's share the space, ok?


Colourful lunch at Bill's.

cycle across town

Saw a series of bike hire points outside the Langham. Just need the bicycles with their mildly prominent Barclays branding. The scheme is launching this month.

Tools for Living

Chef knives, pots and pans, door handles, bathroom taps. A (hefty coffee table book) celebration.

Design*Sponge's Living In series

Guess the film
Clue: well la di da.

1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces

"Using the landscape of the Museum as a test site, the V&A invited nineteen architects to submit proposals for structures that examine notions of refuge and retreat.

A shift in scale towards smaller, bespoke structures encourages a heightened sensitivity to materials, texture and proportion. A renewed clarity emerges, allowing architects a freedom of expression that often struggles to survive in larger building projects".

Friday off this week so heading to the V&A for their latest exhibition.
(image: Beetle’s House, Terunobu Fujimori)

Basil and persian lime

Rococo chocolate bars. New painted packaging reminds me of the Bloomsbury group.

Last weekend: London Festival of Architecture

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Bankside Urban Forest (03/07 and 04/07)
This festival is an invitation to be part of London's developments, going beyond buildings. Taking the lead from Witherford Watson Mann Architects' Bankside Urban Forest scheme, LFA's final weekend focuses on the stretch of city from the South Bank along to Elephant & Castle. The architects' scheme proposes improvements to the public realm amongst a redeveloped Elephant & Castle and a regenerated Bankside. A derelict car park on Union Street will be transformed into an idyllic urban orchard with Wayward Plant Registry's plant adoption and exchange programme taking residency over the weekend. View a live build project (a new performance medium?) as German architects Kobberling & Kaltwasser construct a theatre from recycled and found materials. NEO Bankside has commissioned a model of Tate Modern made entirely of sugar cubes at 100:1 scale, and a visit to Tooley Street for Moss Your City at The Architecture Foundation's HQ is highly recommended. There will be a series of walks, talks and hard-hat opportunities to experience the diversity (and biodiversity) of this area in transition.

Fantabulous Moira (centre) and the Urban Orchard team.