Tag: london

NIMBY Art Piece

a great illustration for why community boards and zoning need to be destroyed.

Westminster Abbey triforium

The triforium, a walled interior space located 16m above the cathedral floor, was closed off to the public for 700 years.

The Skyline Project

6 New York City-area breweries shipped off to London to pour at the city’s marquee craft beer festival and brew 6 collaboration beers with 6 London breweries. They’re calling it The Skyline Project, and it’s a first-of-its-kind Transatlantic collaboration that releases in September in the UK.

featuring kcbc, of course.

Subway Rave

This video gets more and more fun as it goes on. Passengers on the Bakerloo line on a London tube train were privy to a pop-up rave Monday night. At first, drum’n’bass MC Harry Shotta acts like an unsuspecting passenger, sitting behind a newspaper on a seat. He looks up in surprise as music suddenly blasts through a sound system and lights begin to flash. Then it turns into a full-on rave. Another DJ calls up Shotta and asks what his name is. When he answers “Harry Shotta” the passengers cheer, and then they are rewarded with a great show. Never has a subway ride looked so exciting.

timeless fictional London

The number of geographical references kept increasing, but they remain essentially localized in the City and in the West End. The rest of London—where most of the growth was actually taking place—never really mattered. In the course of the 19th century, real London radically changed—and fictional London hardly at all.

London Customs

london is super by the book. see also:

London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211. In a small annual ceremony the city hands over an axe, a knife, 6 horseshoes, and 61 nails.

400 Years of London

Claes Jansz Visscher’s 2m engraving of medieval London, dated 1616, is one of the most iconic images of the pre-fire city. Now British artist Robin Reynolds has redrawn the panorama to depict the London of today, from the same viewpoint and scale.

London is cosmopolitan

London has been cosmopolitan for 2 ka. using dna analysis, they found that even then, only 25% of inhabitants was born there.

Transit strike upside

of the regular commuters affected by the strike, either because certain stations were closed or because travel times were considerably different, ~5% decided to stick with their new route once the strike was over.

Sky Pool

that looks like it will be fun, but i’d be surprised if it actually gets built over all the usual NIMBY nonsense.