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Murray has left the university and DS.16 to take up a post at UCL. His energy and passionate teaching will be greatly missed by all involved in DS.16! We wish him great success in his new role. (Murray on Etna in Feb)
DS.16 will carry on in 2011-12. More on that shortly…
Filed under: 01_Students 2010 - 2011
Westway Fungi Night Market
The remaking of the spaces beneath the Westway flyover in west London has been one of the most remarkable transformations in the city in the last decade or so. Now a centre for growing different kinds of mushrooms, including shitake and truffles, is inserted effortlessly under the concrete sky of the A40. People come to shop for these organic foods in London’s first night market.
Filed under: 01_Students 2010 - 2011
London Without Bees
What would happen if, as the worst predictions suggest, there were no bees in London? Here a headquarters in Kew Gardens releases millions of delicate floating inseminators, like artificial spores, across the city. Locally, in places like Victoria Park in Hackney, small repair and collection points work constantly to recycle the proxy bees: architecture to pollinate a wilting city.
Winner of the RIBA CLAWSA Student Award 2011
See Ben’s project on Dezeen:
www.dezeen.com/2011/06/28/london-without-bees-by-ben-kirk/
Ben’s work is part of the Tallinn Architecture Bienalle 2011:
www.tab.ee/#exhibition
