Author: Paul Lincoln
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Never Mind the Bollards, an exhibition about public space.
This is a great exhibition all about public space and the detail that makes it so interesting.
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Why does the Royal London Hospital treat pedestrians so miserably?
Does the recently completed Royal London in Whitechapel prefer you to arrive by ambulance? Look at the bizarre welcome it offers to people trying to get in on foot.
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A pilgrimage from Paddington to Old Oak Common, the new heart of west London
The walk from Paddington to Old Oak Common via Little Venice and Ladbroke Grove takes about an hour but it offers a great display of architectural styles from the brutalist bus shelter hidden beneath the West Way to a bizarre example of a housing estate barricading some of its residents behind a reinforced blue concrete […]
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Via Verde – a really green approach to low cost housing in South Bronx
Via Verde is a new housing development designed by Dattner Architects and London-based Grimshaw. It was the winning entry to a New Housing New York Legacy Competition. The 1.5 acre site in the South Bronx is located in the Melrose neighbourhood. The mixed-use project provides 151 rental apartments affordable to low-income households and 71 co-ops […]
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High Line, New York now open connects new art gallery and major commercial development
The third and final stage of New York’s High Line is now complete and open to the public. Running parallel to the river and linking a new home for the Whitney Museum to the Hudson’s Yard development scheme, what started as a community-led project to save a derelict raised railway line has now become the […]
Walking City ~ Paul Lincoln 