Dec 21st, 2007
Our whole apartment block (all three of us anyway) teamed up for a fun party in our slightly opulent entrance hall last Friday. A (mildly illegal) open fire, strong mulled wine and the odd drape of tinsel created a great atmosphere that lasted until only slightly later than expected (the 6:30 am bedtime certainly wasn’t [...]
Dec 20th, 2007
While it might be possible to hold an outdoor festival in the middle of winter in benign Byron Bay, surely festival season has wrapped up months ago here in the UK. Not so fast however however – there is a solution – the ultimate in family holiday fun – Butlins Holiday Camps and the kind [...]
Dec 6th, 2007
There is a great exhibition at Glasgow’s kewl Lighthouse Centre for Architecture, Design + the City – Scotland and the Mackintosh School of Architecture’s favourite modernists Gillespie Kidd & Coia. Some beautiful brutal poetic post war architecture – and yes some crap leaky grey boxes. Their churches are definitely worth looking at for any architects [...]
While we tried to keep our usual architouring to a minimum to avoid totally ruining our friends holiday we did manage to sneak in a few select gems on our trip.
In New York firstly I was a little disappointed with the new MoMA – I felt it lacked coherence and any clear rationale. There were [...]
Dec 5th, 2007
Interpol played Glasgow last night – giving us our first taste of the Carling Academy – which part from being named after an awful beer (think the West End Institute for any South Australians) is actually an impressive converted former cinema. We were up in the seated balcony area though – so although the sound [...]
Dec 1st, 2007
Her maj has granted me leave to remain so I’m back at work on Monday – it’s been a nice little interlude but I didn’t expect it to wrap up this quickly! I managed to get to a few museums and galleries we hadn’t seen yet as well as exploring a few random areas of [...]