128art_Reflected Ceiling

WHAT_architecture 13-May-2011
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128art_TURNTABLE GALLERY

The rotating gallery is based upon the railway turntable and offers changing relationships between interior and exterior.

WHAT_architecture 06-May-2011
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The number of public toilets in London dropped 40 percent from 2000 to 2005, leaving 415 loos to serve a population of 7.5 million (or 1 lav per 18,000 inhabitants), government figures show. That’s not including the 28 million people who visit the U.K. capital each year. Compare this with Beijing, where the average salary is a 10th of London’s, there are 7,700 toilets, or one for every 2,000 people (9x more). The shortage belies London’s history as an exemplary provider of public toilets. Its first public lavatory was built in the 12th century at the site of what is now the Royal Bank of Canada’s offices. During the Victorian era, public bathrooms multiplied, and often boasted mosaic tiling and copper pipes. Such facilities have sometimes fallen afoul of new laws. The Disability Act, which came into force in 2004, requires that public toilets be accessible to wheelchair users or have suitable alternatives nearby. Rather than invest in ramps and elevators, some authorities have shut or sold older restrooms. talloway@bloomberg.net Performing urban acupuncture, could architecture’s most modest space – the WC – save the city? The redeeming feature of this site is, as the Metropolitan Police remind us – Urination!

WHAT_architecture 05-May-2011
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128art_FREE URINAL WITH EVERY DANCE!

A Section106 convenience. One free urinal with every dance event? SatLav: is a scheme using satellite navigation to locate your nearest loo.

WHAT_architecture 05-May-2011
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128art_HOUSE BUILDING

Can architecture solve crime? Can this project really be a Batman Building that saves Gotham City (Brick Lane) from the grips of crime (or grime: tagging, loud music and urination)? We believe that this project can reconcile the cash revenues necessarily acquired through the festive pronounciations of a Bank holy-day of dancing to subsidise the everyday costs of social balance and order. Design police, save the world! F*ck architecture, let’s dance! HOUSE: 1. electro 2. progressive 3. tech 4. funky 5. deep 6. Chicago 7. hard 8. hi energy 9. minimal 10. New York 11. tribal HOUSING: 1. electricity 2. new 3. technical 4. fun 5. deep 6. East Landin 7. grime 8. zero-carbon footprint 9. maximal 10. London 11. urban Organised grime is coming. Art is a great precursor to urban development. Its aesthetic appreciation of the city’s dirt can promote a social order that is economically and culturally accepted and appreciated. All aboard! Shoreditch Underground can integrate with the overground.

WHAT_architecture 03-May-2011
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128art_opening artspace

Next up, Life Drawing.

WHAT_architecture 03-May-2011
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128art_MixMag: Day and Night!

This Sunday sees Mixmag take over the brand new Shoreditch Underground – a never-before-used party space in the converted Shoreditch Station – for the first in a new series of parties called Mixmag: Day + Night. The massive underground event will see sets from Radio Slave, Nina Kraviz, Jozif, Mighty Mouse, Cage & Aviary and Nomi Ruiz (Of Hercules And Love Affair fame)…

WHAT_architecture 28-Apr-2011
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128art_railside cinema under construction

WHAT_architecture 26-Apr-2011
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128art_building façade

WHAT_architecture 17-Apr-2011
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128art_The Railway Cinema

The outdoor cinema is being installed beneath the old railway station where the East London line trains used to depart from. What potential does the relation between film and the railways hold for this project? For starters, the use of trains or tracks, subways or stations, railway structures or railway employees in feature films is comprehensive: The List of Railway Movies compiled by Mike Trout & Mark Brader lists over 225 examples up to 1997… in association with www.nowtspecial.co.uk/

In the days before iPods, texting, Kindles and Nooks, people actually talked to each other on public transportation. The loss of this innocent small talk is generally looked at as a bad thing, but there’s at least one plus to our modern way of doing things: the risk of accidentally implying to your neighbor that you will kill his father if he murders your wife is much smaller now. That’s the setup for 1951 film Strangers on a Train, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most devilish thrillers. After this opening sequence, the film is distressingly train-free, but Hitch makes up for it by doubling up on the transportation thrills, staging the film’s climactic confrontation on a runaway carousel. Finally, this leads to the possibility of the cinema as a projective art space: where the audience make their own railway film: rolling! First stop: London Underground. Second stop: Cottbus, Germany. Third stop: Pleasure Beach, Blackpool.

WHAT_architecture 17-Apr-2011
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