on 24 August 2001
Britain. To you and me it’s the world centre of cutting-edge design. To most Americans it’s kind of an island thing somewhere near Paris where they eat fish and chips off of [sic] the Times.
How to illuminate the globe’s benighted hordes vis-à-vis our creative pre-eminence? If anyone has the answer, it dashed well ought to be the British Council, that stiff-upper-lipped brigade charged with explaining to foreigners (slowly and C-L-E-A-R-L-Y) Blighty’s innate superiority.
And the BC’s latest wheeze is a ship-shape touring show featuring the work of 15 architecture practices. One of them, Urban Salon, also won the pitch to design the expo, which features photos, CAD images, models, and videos of the development cycle, as well as pre-recorded interviews with the architects. Countering any danger of parochialism, projects have been selected to reflect a range of international locations, and indeed, somewhat oddly, three of the chosen exhibitors are based outside the UK.
Among the featured projects is Softroom’s brilliant Kielder Belvedere, a walkers’ shelter that epitomises the essential modern British talent of creating something intelligent on a stupid budget.
Space Invaders kicks off on 22 September at Experimentadesign 2001 in Lisbon – an event itself presumably intended to address the perception that Portugal is a part of Spain where they speak Brazilian.
adambanksdotcom @Herring1967 "watching on screen"?! That's not a subeditor, it's a butcher with English as a third language