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Art13 London Delivers World Class Fair To Relieve Winter Blues

The inaugural Art13 London, held in the Olympia Grand Hall, which opened last night and runs from 1–3 March 2013, fills a gap that London has lacked for a number of years. It is a well organised operation bringing together over 130 exhibitors of merit, with very little to drag it down. This is a fair which champions the emerging and accomplishes much of what the Frieze Art fair has lacked, in past few years. In fact it has achieved a careful balance of innovation along with the familiar, an amalgam which has not been realised in the past.

http://www.artlyst.com/articles/art13-london-delivers-world-class-fair-to-relieve-winter-blues

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I want to go to there!

In this beautiful capture by Elia Locardi, we see the awesome entranceway to the Red Zone at the Natural History Museum in London, England. 

Established in 1881, the Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London, England (the others are the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum). The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation.

Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, the Natural History Museum does not levy an admission charge. [Source]

picture-this-london:

8bit Lane 011 on Flickr.

Secret London - Vic Lee

Eurostar and Clm Bbdo (Swann Richard & Augustin Camus) via Golem13

Morrissey Exhibition - Photo Hamish Brown - Gallery: Rock City Art via Blunt

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Thoroughly Modern Carriage House: Pop-Up Homes (and Jobs) for Homeless Londoners
- by Adele Peters

How can a city add affordable apartments to a neighborhood with no room for new buildings? London architects Levitt Bernstein recently won a Building Trust competition with their new solution: pop-up modular homes inside unused parking garages. 

In Hackney, a low-income neighborhood in northeast London, it’s less and less common for residents to own cars. Public transportation has improved in the city, and cars are expensive. Rows of garages sit empty, making the streets look lifeless and encouraging crime. 

The design calls for pre-fab units that slip easily into unused garages and become temporary homes for homeless Londoners. The simple construction of the homes will become part of an apprenticeship program, giving some residents the unique opportunity to help build their own homes. 

The design includes a bedroom and bathroom, with communal kitchens, dining, and laundry in every fifth space. By using passive building techniques, no heating or cooling is needed. 

The homes are also designed to be temporary, because the neighborhood is changing and the garages may be removed for new buildings in a few years. Thanks to their modular design, the homes can easily be removed from the garages and reinstalled somewhere else.

Levitt Bernstein’s next steps will be working with local planning commissions and partnering NGOs to make the project real. In the meantime, a similar project is taking shape in Australia, where Mulloway Studios is transforming underused parking lots in Adelaide to homes for at-risk youth. Mulloway won an honorable mention in the Building Trust competition. 

Images 1 and 3 via Levitt Bernstein; Image 2 (cc) flickr user M&G