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Transcend @St.Giles 2013 Programme
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World Gin Day!
Happy WORLD GIN DAY everyone!
The TranscendFestival launch party is on the 4th of July 2013! Today…
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A Vaporous Folly Built Of Steel And Architectural Ingenuity
By Sammy Medina, fastcodesign.comJapanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed a light and airy pavilion for the 2013 Serpentine Gallery in London.
Every summer, a splashy architectural chimera descends on the wide grassy expanse of Hyde Park’s Kensington Gardens in West…
Something of Eisenman’s Wexner Centre schizophrenic grid about this.
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One month to go!
FULL PERFORMANCE LINE-UP ANNOUNCED FOR OUR FESTIVAL IN CAMDEN
From the gin cellars of the Eighteenth Century to the musical heritage of the Swinging Sixties, St. Giles has always been bubbling with wild creative energy. Transcend’s full festival programme…
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World Map Archive: Hand-drawn maps from across the globe reveal regional and individual perceptions
Hans Aschim, coolhunting.comPicture a map of the world. Chances are, your country of residence is overwhelmingly large. If perspective and place are linked, Benjamin Pollach’s World Map Archive project is absolute proof. What started as a doodle on…
Follow the lines.
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Beautiful Black and White Photos of The Basilica of the Sagrada Família
petapixel.comA couple of weeks ago, we shared some great wide-angle captures by photographer Clement Celma of architect Antoni Gaudi’s famous La Sagrada Família. An architectural marvel, the photos showed how the basilica is as stunning inside as it is…
Drapery.
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Alexander Brodsky at Architekturzentrum Wien in 2011
Irina Vinnitskaya, archdaily.comFor this architect, there is an indiscernible line between art installation and building. Alexander Brodsky studied architecture in Moscow, while working on art installations and drawings both independently and in collaborations with other…
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London’s Camden Catacombs
Deep beneath the streets of Camden lies a secret unknown to the hoards of visitors and market traders up above – a long forgotten labyrinth of tunnels and vaults that bear witness to the area’s colorful Victorian industrial past.
I have been here, back in the Neverwhere researching days, over 15 years ago. In one tunnel there were beds, from World War 2, with boxes of secret papers on them.
Love me some catacombs.
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A Lament...
One of the musicians who runs a singing club in Canons’ Gait, the pub in which Nigel Farage was locked after being mobbed by angry protesters in Edinburgh, has penned a ballad about the furore. The lyrics, written by Steve Byrne, relate the news report in with the personality and style of traditional Scots song.
“For in Scotland we’ve aye been a civilised crew;
If ye look oot fir me, then I’ll look oot fir you!
Dinna come tae Auld Reikie, a-spreadin yer muck,
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Transcend Blog
I’ve connected the official Transcend @St.Giles festival blog to my tumblr, hence the run of posts there! The blog had been quiet for a long while and I had a sudden surge of energy for it over the weekend and bashed out four posts (staggered publishing, of course).
There will be many more Transcend posts on the way, some by me, some not by me, but all exciting and helping generate publicity in the run-up to July!
