Glasgow is getting the UK’s first IKEA flat pack houses as part of a new regeneration development at Gateshead. But what I really want to know is – can you put them together with an allen key, and will they fit in the boot of your car???
Mar 17th, 2007
Glasgow is getting the UK’s first IKEA flat pack houses as part of a new regeneration development at Gateshead. But what I really want to know is – can you put them together with an allen key, and will they fit in the boot of your car???
My favourite architectural image of the week. Facade of Council House 2 in Melbourne. via inhabitat
Kept up our attempt to visit a new place per week last weekend with a day trip back to Edinburgh – scene of our purse tightened initial stay in Scotland. We weren’t feeling museum/touristy sights inclined, so despite the very Glaswegian weather we wandered around the Marchmont area with Claire, visiting her haunts from the [...]
Mar 15th, 2007
On Saturday night the planets were obviously in alignment for the art world – four gallery openings within a 500 m radius beckoned. In the end it was lucky that there were multiple shows as each on its own was a little thin – it also helped to increase the availability and selection of free [...]
Mar 8th, 2007
We made a more concerted attempt at exploring Glasgow’s primary waterway this weekend. We started from the centre of town at Glasgow Green, home to the People’s Palace, Templeton Carpet Factory and enough rowing clubs to make me feel guilty at my current fitness regime.
Picking our way through the somewhat post-apocolytical industrial landscape that edges [...]
Mar 3rd, 2007
A scret society of mummies is secretly taking over Glasgow, communicating to each other and impressionable souls via a smothering series of poster bills plastered on any available space. Perhaps the result of an unscrupulous Scottish Egyptologist unlocking a curse in centuries past? Or just another marketing gimmick – if so I’m not sure what [...]
My attempts at exploring Scotland have been kept much closer to home for the last few weeks through a combination of laziness and pressing social engagements. We have manged a few ventures into a couple of nearby parts of Glasgow that we hadn’t visited previously, so my aim of seeing somewhere new each weekend has [...]