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Unlocking Live Music
Back in July 2020 the UK’s first official post-pandemic indoor live music performance took place in London when Beverley Knight performed live at the London Palladium in a pilot that would ostensibly show how music and theatrical events might be … Continue reading
Posted in all together now..., music, portable
Tagged grass-roots music, live music, lock-down, outdoor gigs
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Ephemeral Cities
In the late 1970s, when I was a student of architecture, I took part in a school trip to Paris. The staff had arranged visits to what they considered important buildings: Villa Savoye (we were impressed), the new Ricardo Bofill’s … Continue reading
Posted in all together now..., portable, traditional architecture
Tagged architecture, cities, fairgrounds, festivals, Paris, temporary stages
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Staging the Spectacular – music and festival scenography at the V&A
‘Good design happens when you are happy’ – with this simple but uplifting message Es Devlin, designer of the Olympic Closing Ceremony and creative director for numerous high profile pop music artists such as Kanye West and the Pet Shop … Continue reading
Posted in all together now..., music, portable, scenography, Uncategorized
Tagged architecture, festivals, stage sets
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How many planets? Sustainability and flexible design
Over the past few months I have been updating some writing on mobile and flexible architecture that I first prepared nearly twenty years ago, and as you might expect, much has changed in the intervening period. One of the things … Continue reading
A Great Adventure – starting a new project
Everyone remembers going to their first big gig. For me that memory is from 1973 when I saw Led Zeppelin at the Liverpool Empire, a £1 ticket earned by queuing up most of the night to be one of the … Continue reading
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What can temporary architecture do? The BMW Guggenheim LAB symposium
What can temporary architecture do? What can it achieve in comparison with static architecture? These were two of the key questions explored in a brief ‘temporary’ symposium held at the Atelier Bow Wow designed pavilion on its penultimate day in … Continue reading
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