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Join LFA 2015-Asking the London question:A Free Floating Pub Quiz On London Architecture
United Kingdom Architecture News - May 22, 2015 - 16:53 18229 views
Nine Elms Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens;image via London Festival Of Architecture
An architecturally themed pub quiz specially commissioned for Nine Elms on the South Bank, in partnership with Londonist, to be held on Battersea Barge. Londonist editor-at-large Matt Brown will test the audience’s London knowledge with 50 fact-tastic questions based on the capital’s past, present and future buildings.
A host of London-themed prizes are up for grabs!
Doors open on 18 June 2015 at 6.30pm and the quiz will begin at 7pm and finish at 9pm. Attendees will have until 10pm to finish up any drinks.
Spaces are limited. To register your team, free of charge, please email [email protected]
London Architecture Festival starts 1 June and will continue 30 June 2015.Nine Elms on the South Bank is a “Work in Progress” – the theme for this year’s London Festival of Architecture (LFA).Previously an industrial part of London, the area is undergoing a vast regeneration to create a new central London district. A place to work, live and play is starting to take shape.
See individual listings for registration details.
In June program;
urban spa visions;image via London Festival Of Architecture
until 7th June 2015
Chelsea Fringe & LFA 2015: The Nine Elms Horticultural Spa & Apothecary Experience by Loop.pH (until 7th June). A restorative public space with a temporary architectural structure that is part greenhouse and part pneumatic bubble. It reinvigorates and celebrates the Thames River Path, inviting people into an ephemeral and futuristic tea ceremony. Once inside your tea is served through clouds of fragrant medicinal fog consumed through breathing and absorbed into the skin......Continue Reading
Nine Elms entrance to Linear Parkres; image via London Festival Of Architecture
13th June 2015
LFA 2015: Public Nine Elms - a new place for London. A walking tour led by Chris Law RIBA, Public Realm and Development Director at Vauxhall One Business Improvement District. The walk will begin at the Tea House Theatre and take in Damien Hirst’s new Newport Street Gallery, the Garden Museum, the new developments along Albert Embankment, through Vauxhall, along Nine Elms Lane, passing the new US Embassy and ending at Battersea Power Station.......Continue Reading
DSDHA Goding Street View; image via London Festival Of Architecture
16th June 2015
LFA 2015: Animating Nine Elms - the arches strategy. A walking tour led by Robin Hughes MRICS, Commercial Estate Property Manager at Network Rail. Network Rail owns 170 railway arches in the area. Robin will be explaining the evolving strategy for improving the vibrancy of the area with Network Rail’s arch refurbishment programme. The walking tour will start at Vauxhall station and finish at Damien Hirst’s new Newport Street Gallery......Continue Reading
Nine Elms Aerial; image via London Festival Of Architecture
16th June 2015
LFA 2015: Nine Elms on the South Bank: shaping a new identity. A panel event held at Brunswick House, Vauxhall. The panel will explore the challenges of creating a sense of place in a diverse area which will deliver a mixture of residential, commercial and leisure developments. Areas of focus will include the tall buildings cluster in Vauxhall, Network Rail’s 170 railway arches, the new town centre to be created at Battersea Power Station and New Covent Garden Market......Continue Reading
Please see the detailed program here.
> via nineelmslondon.com