London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking

London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
Fresh Flower, a portable steel pavilion designed by the firm Tonkin Liu, is a venue for people to converse and debate.
Image courtesy London Festival of Architecture 2008

London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
Fresh Flower, a portable steel pavilion designed by the firm Tonkin Liu, is a venue for people to converse and debate.
Image courtesy London Festival of Architecture 2008

London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
Firms such as Foster + Partners, Grimshaw-Architects, and Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners have submitted entries for a Jell-O design competition. The winner will be announced July 4. The contest is facilitated by Bompas & Parr, which specializes in architecture-themed food and designed the structure above (St. Paul's Cathedral).
Photo © Greta Ilieva

London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
Triangular Pavilion With Circular Cut-Out, by American artist Dan Graham, is one of many art installations that will be on display.
Photo © Dan Graham/Lisson Gallery

London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
In a pavilion at Finsbury Avenue Square, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill will present a film called The Broadgate Experience, produced by young staff members at the firm. SOM helped design the award-winning lighting scheme at the square, located in the city’s financial district.
Photo © Alex Orrow

London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
Anything But Grey, a student-designed installation, will add a dash of color to the historic Benjamin Street Gardens.
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London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
Bohn & Viljoen Architects and a team of gardeners, designers, and foodies will host a daylong picnic that celebrates locally grown food and promotes discussion about urban food production.
Photo © Andre Viljoen

London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
An installation in a vacant lot on Chart Street is intended to promote the idea of using neglected areas in London as growing areas.
Photo © What-if: projects

London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
In Road Trip to the Moon, Charlie Whinney Associates and Metropolitan Workshop have created a dynamic, eco-friendly installation out of steamed-bent timber.
Photo © Metropolitan Workshop

London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
An exhibition called Future Living, to be held in floating pavilion near the two Pan Peninsula towers, will explore the regeneration of London¹s docklands. The exhibition showcases recent high-density, mixed-use developments and the obstacles and benefits they present to an ever-urbanizing world.
Photo © SOM

London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
The four-story Lift Structure by the firm AOC serves as a mobile venue for Lift Festival 2008, a traveling summer arts festival.
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London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
A stage designed by Laurie Chetwood of Chetwoods Architects will be used at the Clerkenwell Party on the Green.
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London Architecture Festival Urges Fresh Thinking
The engineering firm Ramboll Whitbybird is hosting a competition to convert vacant parking spaces into green areas. Fourteen installations will be displayed and judged on July 4. Winners will be named in three categories: Best Use of Recycled Materials, Most Innovative Use of Space, and Most Sustainable Intervention.
Image courtesy Ramboll Whitybird
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