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• Archipelagic Void: A blend of art and architecture in the Serpentine’s summer pavilion

  07-06-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The 23rd Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Seoul-based Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm Mass Studies, has landed in Kensington Gardens next to Hyde Park.Conceived as five artistic islands, the Archipelagic Void pavilion is a collection of ideas ranging from a library to a children’s climbing frame. Although each of the five arms is unique, they all share some common structural themes. The charred wooden timbers sit on top of concrete pillars, all a foundation for the five spaces abo
  
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• Redbridge council greenlights new Lido for Valentine’s Park

  07-06-2024 15:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Thirty years after the original was demolished, Valentine’s Park in East London will get a replacement open-air swimming pool – with a new lido.
  Early concept image (c) Redbridge Council
  At a planning meeting, Redbridge Council approved proposals to build the new Lido in Valentines Park, and construction is expected to begin later this year. Barring any delays, the lido is expected to open to the public by autumn 2025 – almost exactly 30 years after Valentine’s Park&rsquo
  
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• 40 years of Gay Times magazine front covers at the Outernet

  07-06-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  To mark 40 years of Gay Times magazine, the magazine’s archive of front covers is being exhibited at the Outernet in central London.The exhibition is actually a video wall presentation rather than the actual magazine covers, and it can be a bit too fast if you want to look at the covers themselves. Still, they say this is the first time the full archive has been exhibited publicly.
  The video footage is divided into four decades, with short intro texts, a montage of the front covers, and ke
  
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