Some of the events that caught our eye at London's summer architecture festival - our hublights, if you will
Kensington, Chelsea and Knightsbridge
It鈥檚 the opening weekend of the London Festival of Architecture, and there are hundreds of events going on. Get on over to www.lfa2008.org for the full list, but here are the five we鈥檇 recommend you attend in this week鈥檚 featured hub, Kensington, Chelsea and Knightsbridge, plus five of the week鈥檚 highlights elsewhere in the capital.
Exhibition Road
21 JuneThe hub鈥檚 curators, the RIBA Trust, have negotiated the closure of Exhibition Road for the day to allow pedestrians free reign. Not only can visitors help build a Foster + Partners design, they can visit installations by 6a Architects, Tonkin & Liu, Penoyre and Prasad and Paticas Architecture.
Where? Exhibition Road, South Kensington
When? 10am 鈥 6.30pm
Embassies Project Exhibition
20 June 鈥 20 July28 foreign embassies present their country鈥檚 foremost architects and designs. Tour the built environments of Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, Italy, Japan and much more. Also, an exhibition on the cityscapes of Edinburgh and Glasgow
Where? The British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, Kensington
When? 10am 鈥 5pm
Sonic Garden
22 June 鈥 16 JulyA sound installation by renowned artist/designer Dody Nash 鈥 sit in a sculptural sound garden in the heart of Chelsea. Accompanied by short theatre pieces on the theme of guerilla gardening. Viva el Carnation!
Where? Chelsea Theatre King鈥檚 Road
Kensington Architecture Walk
20 鈥 24 JuneA walking tour around the architectural hotspots of the country鈥檚 highest density suburb (or so the legend has it). Take in the modernist architecture of Peter Jones, the 鈥済iant cocoon鈥 of CF M酶ller鈥檚 Darwin Centre and finish by Gustafson Porter鈥檚 controversial yet sympathetic Diana Memorial Fountain.
Blueprint Big Breakfast 鈥 Sir Michael Bichard
24 JuneOne of a series of talks with such luminaries as Janet Street-Porter, Jon Snow, and Mark Wallinger, this morning鈥檚 breakfast is with Sir Michael Bichard, chairman of the Design Council and the civil servant responsible for the introduction of the Learning and Skills Council.
Highlights this week elsewhere at the Festival include
- Charles Jencks, Peter Cook and Sid Robinson discuss Bruce Goff at Tate Modern (3pm, 21 June)
- Daniel Libeskind in conversation at the British Museum (6.30pm, 24 June)
- Piers Gough and others debate whether or not architects should design out terrorism (好色先生TV Design Partnership, 7pm 25 June)
- An informal lunch with Cany Ash of Ash Sakula Architects at the Alan Baxter Gallery (1pm, 26 June)
- Cesar Pelli gives a lecture at Canary Wharf marking the 20th birthday of er, Canary Wharf (7pm, 27 June)
Keep next weekend free for the activities of the next featured hub 鈥 Canary Wharf, Stratford and the Greenwich Peninsula.
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