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Zaha Hadid’s First Storefront Puts A Living Legend Up Close

Even if you don’t get down with her brand of extreme formalism, it’s hard to deny that Zaha Hadid is a living legend. Hadid is the only female architect to have ever won the Pritzker Prize (well, unless you count those who were mysteriously excluded by the Pritzker jury) and the force behind some of the more controversial buildings of the past decade — she’s as much an entrepreneur as she is a designer.

4 April 2013

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Wash Your Hands In The Streets Of London

The pattern in the wooden basin of this sink prototype is no abstract design. It’s a 3D model of the streets of central London.

14 March 2013

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Abandoned Power Station Could Find New Life As A Roller Coaster

The Battersea Power Station is an iconic London building, but it’s been tragically unused since it was decommissioned in 1983. Now, architectural firm Atelier Zündel Cristea wants to turn that around with a proposal to make the abandoned spot a roller coaster. Where do we sign?

1 March 2013

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I Want These Weird Kinetic Thingamajigs For My House

If you are in London you can’t miss the 2013 Kinetica Art Fair. Kinetika — which opened yesterday — is a fair dedicated to kinetic, electronic, robotic, sound, light, time-based and multi-disciplinary new media art, science and technology. So yes, it’s pretty cool.

22 February 2013

Cameras

Spy On London With This Record-Shattering 320-Gigapixel Panorama

Supposedly a picture is worth a thousand words, but this crazy 320-gigapixel panorama of London has got to be worth a little more than that. This record-shattering shot is actually some 48,640 stitched together into one ludicrous goliath. You wish your camera was even one one-hundredth as cool.

27 January 2013

Cameras

Interact With This Beautiful Panorama Taken 310 Metres Above London

Why stare at flat and boring photos of London’s skyline when you could dive into a 360-degree panorama with zooming and swivelling? The future is now people!

17 January 2013

News

Helicopter Crash In Central London Kills Two

A helicopter has crashed into a crane in Vauxhall, London, after it failed to see the structure due to thick fog.

24 December 2012

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9 Stubborn Nail Houses Giving The Finger To Redevelopment

The wheels of progress may turn slowly, but they don’t ever stop, as these nine landlords have learned the hard way. Our friends at Oobject have assembled the best examples of what resisting gentrification gets you.

15 November 2012

Entertainment

Touring London Has Never Looked Better Than With This UAV Drone

If you’ve ever been to London and done the whole “tourist” thing, you know what Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge, the Thames and the London Eye look like, right? Wrong. A team of drone enthusiasts have gone and made a London tour video like you’ve never seen before, by flying a quadcopter-style drone up close to some of the highest heights the city has to offer. This beauty is a must-watch.

29 July 2012

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9 Best Buildings Of The London 2012 Olympics

Though not nearly as ostentatious as the buildings from the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the stadiums and arenas for the London 2012 Olympics are still quite lovely. Here are the best buildings you’ll probably see over and over again for the next few weeks.

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