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A fascinating series of events begins this month at the Garden Museum in London : From Garden City to Green City, examining different aspects of urban landscapes. Topics cover, amongst others, food in the metropolis, realising the green city, landscape in the garden city. Visit the website to find out more.

Pick your own herbs and vegetables from the walls and roof of this house built of plastic crates, similar to those used for packing fresh produce. Destuurlui means The Urban Mates in dutch – at least so my translation tells me. These Amsterdam-based landscape designers and planners created the house for a project last year. […]

I read about this yesterday in Blueprint magazine and wanted to spread the news. The team behind the wonderful Cineroleum outdoor cinema last summer is working on a new project, this time under the 6 lane highway at Hackney Wick in East London. For those who don’t know, Hackney Wick is something of an urban […]

What impressed me about this collection was the colouring and the amazing embroidery and embellishment. The semi-precious stones and tarnished metal convey an established opulence that is very much an antidote to all the brightness of technological development. I love technology but you can’t beat a bit of historical interpretation every now and again. I’m […]

The department store Christmas displays are always worth seeing. Fortnum and Mason rarely disappoint and this year’s Piccadilly windows are a glory of deconstructed classical paintings inspired by the National Gallery. I’m not sure you can tell that this is a 3D construction including real objects from the photo: I like the fact that they have […]

Now that it’s December I feel OK talking about Christmas. I was horrified in September to see a Christmas tree in a restaurant: my friend couldn’t understand the pointing and gabbling of ” Aargh, look, look!”. She thought perhaps that I’d spotted a celebrity but I’m not quite that pathetic. Anyway, back to Christmas and gift […]