December 22, 2024

Walking in Poplar: A kinaesthetic place-ballet

Erno Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower (Home) Criss-crossing unfamiliar avenues in an at­tempt to defamiliarise my connection with my home turf; I took the long meandering way… Like a thread unravelling before me in the streets, walking in Poplar […]

(Drifting through) Our Brutal Streets

Preamble Italo Calvino illustrates the city in Cosmicomics (1968) as a multifaceted ‘cluster of crystals’ where one must walk ‘along the edge of moldings and invisible friezes, like ants … crossing a city [to] follow […]

The Hoxton Mutation

Areas normally evolve stylistically according to the culture of its residents, but what’s fascinating about the changing face of East London’s Shoreditch and Hoxton over the past ten to twelve years lies with the sudden […]

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