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Women in design – a personal experience

March 8, 2016 by Jackie Hawkins

Today is International Women’s Day… There will, no doubt, be plenty of articles written about the working and home lives of women, and how inequalities and prejudices are still all too common. How research shows that success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women (when a man is successful, he […]

Categories: Architecture, Design, Writing • Tags: architecture, design, writing

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Sensing Spaces: more ‘miss’ than hit, RA, London

February 20, 2014 by Jackie Hawkins

Everyone seems to have an opinion on ‘Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined’ on at the Royal Academy right now. It appears to be so popular, I wonder whether it will do for the public appreciation of architecture what Anish Kapoor’s hugely visited 2010 exhibition did for sculpture.  It left me however, a little cold.

Categories: Architecture, Art, Writing • Tags: architecture, art

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The Southbank, London – never fails to delight

January 21, 2014 by Jackie Hawkins

Just when you thought you could write off the Southbank, in servitude to encroaching developers, it comes up trumps. Until 4 February you can catch the breathlessly beautiful Landscape Photographer of the Year exhibition at the National Theatre – my pick of the best are featured here.

Categories: Architecture, Photography, Street art and performance, Writing • Tags: architecture, Southbank, the National Theatre

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#LDF2013 kicks-off in style

September 14, 2013 by Jackie Hawkins

‘Endless Stair‘ by dRMM  - this year’s landmark installation for the London Design Festival. Caught here under construction. Very Escher. Very beautiful. Hope it holds up under this terrible weather!

Categories: Art, Design, Festival, London Design Festival • Tags: #LDF2013, architecture, design, festival

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Architecture looks best on Instagram: its official.

August 21, 2013 by Jackie Hawkins

Categories: Architecture, London Landmark, Photography • Tags: architecture, design

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The Shard: flops

June 29, 2012 by Jackie Hawkins

Large erection of light spits out delight…! Or so we were promised. The Shard fired lasers from some of its 95 stories at eleven of London’s best known landmarks including  St Paul’s Catherdral, Canary Wharf, the Houses of Parliament and the Tower of London. The thing is, nobody could see them! What a letdown.  

Categories: Architecture, Event, London Landmark • Tags: architecture

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MONA, Hobart – a superb anti-museum

March 18, 2012 by Jackie Hawkins

Over the Bass Strait, lies Australia’s answer to the Tate Modern. Only darker, dirtier and joyously more disconcerting. A unique museum experience, its owner the multi-millionaire and local man David Walsh has decided to share his private collection of art for all to see.

Categories: Architecture, Art, Design, Writing • Tags: architecture

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