First year Project

High Street 2012 is a program of public realm improvements along the street from Aldgate to Stratford. The project aims to upgrade the street from Whitechapel Road to Stratford High Street, and to provide a lasting legacy from the 2012 Games for local communities. As London met first year architecture students we have been playing both an interesting and exciting role in the project. The combination of 100 students researching and designing for spesific sites along the street has resulted in great in-depth and unique knowledge of the street that has not been gathered before.

High St 2012

High St 2012
1st year project

Friday, 21 May 2010

Architecture in film


I read an article in Mark magazine about a film that featured at the architectural film festival in Rotterdam in October 2009. Filmmaker Stephen Payne has made a documentary mapping a group of skateboarders in Fresno in California. It looks at how the city of 500,000 was heavily hit by the financial crisis. It is interesting to see how the financial crisis has effected a select group of skate boarders in a spatial way as the up keep of swimming pools in the city proved to be too expensive, this creating new spaces for skaters to skate. http://www.fresnothemovie.com/this provided a very different reaction to what we have been used to seeing in the media in response to the financial crisis.

http://www.affrblog.nl/lang/en-us/program/
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