Category Archives: london

japanese bar

25 Aug Filed under london. No comments.
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in kensington gardens

23 Aug Filed under design, doesn't fit anywhere else, london. 2 Comments.

an edwar­dian fantasy

urban myth

22 Aug Filed under london. No comments.

The anthro­pol­o­gist respects his­tory, but he does not accord it a spe­cial value. He con­ceives it as a study com­ple­men­tary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human soci­eties in time, the other in space. Claude Levi-Strauss

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30 st mary axe

21 Aug Filed under architecture, london. 2 Comments.

with hol­land house — opened 1914, designed by the great dutch ‘father of mod­ernism’, berlage

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notting hill carnival 2008

13 Aug Filed under london, places. No comments.

… car­ni­val is a pageant with­out foot­lights and with­out a divi­sion into per­form­ers and spec­tac­tors. In car­ni­val every­one is an active par­tic­i­pant, every­one com­munes in the car­ni­val act. Car­ni­val is not con­tem­plated, and, strictly speak­ing, not even per­formed; its par­tic­i­pants live in it, they live by … Read More →

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serpentine summer pavilion, 2008

12 Aug Filed under architecture, design, london, places. No comments.

the frank gehry designed sum­mer pavil­ion for the ser­pen­tine gal­lary in lon­don, last year, 2008, com­pare with the SANAA pavil­ion, a huge contrast

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brick lane

9 Aug Filed under london, places. No comments.

notting hill

7 Aug Filed under london. No comments.

*liv­ing in not­ting hill at the time of the movie of the same name, with julia roberts and hugh grant, i went to see it oblig­a­to­rily at the not­ting hill coro­net. you may remem­ber that in the movie there is a scene of grant’s bum­bling … Read More →

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england’s green and pleasant

2 Aug Filed under london, places. No comments.

spring arrives early in lon­don. only to dis­ap­pear again, just as quickly. a Sun­day walk on par­lia­ment hill, high­gate, and hampstead The fields from Isling­ton to Marybone, To Prim­rose Hill and Saint John’s Wood, Were builded over with pil­lars of gold, And there Jerusalem’s pil­lars stood… _ … Read More →

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train

26 Jul Filed under london. No comments.