Anish Kapoor

Marcus du Sautoy discusses the exhibition and there is an interview with Anish Kapoor about the exhibition in Kensington Gardens, London which is on until 13th March 2010. Worth going when there are a few clouds and sunshine...
See exhibition website and
Serpentine gallery site for further information.

Croation Pavilion

'The pavilion structure is in the form of a cargo of 32 tons of welded wire mesh, with more than 40 layers spaced so that they form a solid volume with approximate dimensions of 19m x 9m x 5,5m. Inside the volume is a carved out space shaped by varying contours that form the main space as well as protrusions and openings toward the outside. Almost invisible form a distance, the structure reveals itself with different densities of steel mesh, transparencies, and vision lines, forming stunning visual effects and experience of space by very simple means.' e-architect
Croatian Pavilion
article and images

Venice Beinnale

Hylozoic Ground videos

An interview with Philip Beesley about Hylozoic ground, and a longer 40 minute version of this below (unfortunately this comes with an advert to start) then more info on this interview on this link

Cloudscapes

Tetsuo Kondo Architects and Transsolar (climate engineering company) Cloudscapes for the 2010 Venice Beinnale, is an indoor artificially generated cloud: “cool dry air at the bottom that keeps the cloud floating, hot humid air in the middle to fashion a dense fog and hot dry air at the top.”
Tetsuo Kondo Architects

Consumerism Series

BBC World Service radio series exploring consumerism: 'In this special series of programmes on consumerism, the BBC World Service travels the world to uncover how we spend, what we spend and why we spend. Is it true that we now equate personal happiness with material possessions? And, if so, who is responsible for promoting this way of thinking?'
Listen Again available on each section in the menu on the left.
Consumerism

Olafur Eliasson 'Your Split Second House'

Olafur Eliasson's installation at the Venice Biannale, water sprays momentarily caught within light.
2010 Biannale
Guardian article on the 2010 Biannale
further images of the 2010 Biannale

City of Memory

City of Memory - New York stories is an on-line repository of memories developed by City Lore.
'The cliché, said Jake Barton, Local Projects’ founder, is that there are eight million stories in the city. But really, he said, “it’s kind of more like there’s eight million different cities, each created within each of our memories.” That, he added, is the idea of the site: “What does the city look like when you’re seeing it not just through an official lens, or your own lens, but seeing it through the lens of what other people have experienced?”' New York Times
City of Memory
also see City Lore's own site with further projects relating to place, cultural identity and memory City Lore and a further project Place Matters