Farewell to the Foundry
... now running much of London and talent doesn’t always get a look-in. The Foundry is going to be replaced by an ‘art’otel’ in shoreditch, which from the artist’s impression looks like a cut-off cylinder covered in grey-green tiles. Not, I think, an architectural masterpiece. It’s part of a European chain – and we’re promised it will be decorated by ‘real artists’. (So, not like the ones who exhibited at the Foundry, then?)
The Foundry could...
February 7th, 2010 | Andrea Kirkby | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Art, featuredarticle, galleries, hoxton, shoreditch
Hurrah! a victory for Shoreditch residents
... wonderful building saved from the bulldozers.
News has just come through that property developer Hammerson has changed its plans for development in shoreditch to save the Light Bar – a thoroughly individual and very attractive late nineteenth century building.
The Light was originally an electricity substation – but it was built in a delightfully classical style, using rich red brick and creamy white detailing to transform a brusque cuboid into a building of real character.
The Architects’...
September 22nd, 2009 | Andrea Kirkby | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: architecture, History & Information, light bar, shoreditch
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