Vitra’s showroom sale has them sleeping rough for bargains from a £199 Eames-esque desk that was previously £800, or a set of four white Tip Ton chairs, designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osbergy, designers of the Olympic Torch, for £99, previously £700. Creative Clerkenwell has more. Who cares that it will hit 2 by …
Author Archives: Sean Gallagher
London Feb 1, 2013
Tim and I walked Oscar to the Barbican.
159 City Road, Hackney
Dubbed Eagle House, this skeleton was approved in 2007 and construction of the 27 storey tall residential tower got underway. Then the financial crisis hit. Construction stalled. Purchased by Mount Anvil in October 2012, construction is set to resume in summer 2013. The building, which was designed by Terry Farrell and Partners, will include 276 …
Devon Mansions, Southwark
Five residential buildings strung along Tooley Street on both sides of Tower Bridge Road. Wikipedia has the full details.
Houston Oct 12, 2012
I lived in Houston for a little over a year. I expected Houston to be nothing more than a car city, the unholy love-child of Orlando and Los Angeles. And while, yes, it was decidedly a car city, Houston had a deeper layer. Perhaps its emptiness — people were few and far between on the …
140 London Wall, The City
Completed in 1976, 140 London Wall was once part of a string of Corporation of London developments designed in the modernist style. Designed by architects Philip Powell and Hildago Moya.
Kelson House, Samuda Estate
From British History Online: “Kelson House is a 25-storey block of maisonettes, faced in aggregate-concrete panels. It is of the ‘scissors’ type developed in the early 1960s by a team in the LCC Architect’s Department, headed by David Gregory-Jones, Colin Jones and Ian Hampson.”
Sean Gallagher 