From Trains to Automobiles: Motorised Experiences of Landscapes

18 November 2011

Essay by Iain Borden. This short essay explores different mobile experiences of cities and landscapes, beginning with train journeys in the nineteenth century before turning to automobile journeys over the last hundred years. In particular, it focuses on the kinaesthetic qualities of these experiences - whereby there occurs a substantial re-orientation ...

Short Stories; London in two and a half dimensions

07 November 2011

Combining place and fiction in an imaginative interpretation of ten sites in the city of London, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take well-known institutions, epochs and lifestyles in the British capital and renders them fantastic in a string of architectural short stories.

'The Limehouse Link: the Architectural and Cultural History of a Monumental Road Tunnel in London's Docklands'

Article by Iain Borden. In the Docklands area of London lies the 'Limehouse Link', a dual-bore road tunnel used by around 80,000 cars each day. A monumental and highly expensive piece of ...

Weather Architecture

Further extending Jonathan Hill's investigation of authorship, this book recognizes the weather as a creative architectural force alongside the designer and user. Although acknowledging the influence of the client, contractor and engineer ...