As sustainability has risen up the environmental agenda, "greenwashing" has become a serious problem. Yet one innovation in particular is proving to be particularly immune to the problem of overstatement: for architects, designers and and landscape urbanists, green roofs are fast becoming a byword for measures to lower the impact of buildings across their whole life cycle.
One of the
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The Worship Street Whistling Shop and The Zetter Townhouse are East London’s latest drinking emporiums to celebrate the extravagance of 19th century drinking.
We love these new experiential drinking venues, both reviving forgotten recipes while pioneering cocktail innovation in completely unique settings.
Opened last month, The Worship Street Whistling Shop, created by Fluid Movement, comprises a bar, a Dram shop and a
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Urban migration is an increasingly prevalent topic with projections suggesting that over half the world’s population already live in urban areas and cities across the globe. Utopia Forever is a beautiful publication which aims to challenge this issue and explore concepts for future design within the realms of architecture and urbanism.
Although predominantly conceptual, author and curator Lukas Feireiss has
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Launched in January, and now in it’s second year, The Catlin Guide showcases the most promising art talent within the UK in a comprehensive ‘ones-to-watch’ guide for 2011.
The project aims to realise the ambitions of promising art students and has been launched as a sister publication to the acclaimed Catlin Art Prize, a platform facilitating new
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We love the new Spring/ Summer issue of U.K.-based fashion and art magazine Twin, released last week. Founded by former creative director of Lula, Becky Smith and Aimee Farrell of Vogue U.K., Twin is a biannual style magazine featuring an intriguing and well-edited mix of art, culture and fashion photography.
Offering a slow-paced, refined and reflective look at fashion and
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With the strive for new materials that are sustainable, environmentally responsible and bio-degradable, Fiorenzo Omenetto showcased the latest innovation in materials at a recent TED conference. With over 20 incredible properties this new material is implantable in the human body and is technologically similar to micro electronics. Clear and transparent, it is made up of water and protein and is
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Opened last week in London’s Dalston area, Urban Fog is a temporary site-specific art installation and teahouse curated by architecture practice Atelier Chanchan.
Collaborating with popular local café Tina We Salute You the Urban Fog team has created a temporary teahouse providing tea and cake, as well as a thought- provoking art installation fused with architecture. The temporary space on a
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Contemporary film-making meets humanity’s oldest known images in Werner Herzog’s latest film Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
For this project the director gained exclusive access to France’s Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is home to 30,000 year old cave paintings and other Upper Paleolithic artifacts, including an eight year-old boy’s footprints and the remains of hearth fires, as well as the bones
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As part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Dining with Alice is a theatrical, Victorian dining experience hosted by characters from the classic Lewis Carroll story, including the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts.
With a limited number of performances this truly original idea will take place from the 12th of May at the stunning country
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We love the idea of the new Idler Academy in London’s picturesque neighborhood of Notting Hill. Opened last month this bookshop/coffee house/school hybrid is operated by Tom Hodgkinson and Victoria Hull and sells books and quality coffee, as well as running courses in academic and practical subjects ranging from Latin to embroidery, gardening and ukulele for beginners.
A place to
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