http://brst440.commons.yale.edu Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:24:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In December 2005, Time Out London ran a feature titled "North versus South." Category by category, from best record shop to best "chippy," each side of the Thames was judged. Final score: North London, 14. South London, 16. Just thirty years ago, the outcome of the contest would have been ... http://brst440.commons.yale.edu/?p=566 Housing numerous museums and being the site of the Great Exhibition of 1851, South Kensington, in West London, is known for its value as a cultural centre. In 1983, a new building entered this historic centre of culture and added to it, albeit in a decidedly un-English way. The Ismaili ... http://brst440.commons.yale.edu/?p=505 In March 2000, British Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett introduced a new program of City Academies, intended to revive underperforming schools in disadvantaged inner-city settings. Academies would be independently managed schools, funded primarily by the state, with an initial voluntary investment from private parties within the nearby community. ... http://brst440.commons.yale.edu/?p=339 What makes a building fashionable? The vocabulary of couture is not inappropriate to a discussion about architecture. Both media flirt simultaneously with the artistic and the practical, the quotidian and the exceptional. Buildings are as essential to human society as clothes, and like clothing they can stand apart from ... http://brst440.commons.yale.edu/?p=510 Daniel Libeskind's LMU Graduate Centre overlooking Holloway Road As if to make up for its historical reluctance to, and often outright disavowal of, modern architecture, England and London in particular have become a hotbed of architectural advancement and ingenuity. Home to the Architectural Association School and studios of major-label ... http://brst440.commons.yale.edu/?p=480 Figure 1. Front View of the Laban Centre from the front lawn performance space. It is difficult to discuss the Laban Centre for Contemporary Dance without some notice of its neighborhood context. Located on the eastern edge of Deptford in the borough of Lewisham, south of the Thames opposite Canary ... http://brst440.commons.yale.edu/?p=433 The changes that have been made to the London Docklands in the past 25 years have been among the most striking and most dynamic developments in the world. The London Docklands Development Corporation (1981-1998) played a huge role in the area’s transformation, turning what used to be industrial wasteland ... http://brst440.commons.yale.edu/?p=454 Historically a vibrant if rather seedy neighborhood, bounded on the north by the Thames and trailing off into suburbs in the south, the borough of Southwark was populated largely by poorer citizens and boasted theaters, brothels and taverns before the advent of industrialization turned it into a place of railway ... http://brst440.commons.yale.edu/?p=397 The British Library, if nothing else, contains promise. Within it is the promise of the future of literary texts, the promise of growing culture, and also the promise of bringing up a neighborhood out of a somewhat grimy past. Some would say that the British Library cannot possibly succeed in ... http://brst440.commons.yale.edu/?p=400 It is difficult not to get swept up in the excitement surrounding the city of Wembley these days. Between the brand new, already legendary stadium that was just opened earlier this year and the massive regeneration project taking place in the community, the new energy in the area is ... http://brst440.commons.yale.edu/?p=374