Further information
Exhibition Road Music Day
The London Festival of Architecture 2008 is a celebration and exploration of the city’s buildings, streets and spaces and runs from 20 June – 20 July across the capital. The festival includes over 600 exhibitions, lectures, public space installations, guided walks, bicycle rides, boat tours, parties, design workshops and debates.
On Saturday 21 June, the London Festival of Architecture join forces with Exhibition Road Music Day to present “EXPLORE SITES AND SOUNDS”
Architectural highlights on Exhibition Road on 21 June include:
• a representation of the Dixon Jones plan for the development of Exhibition Road,
• temporary structures by Foster and Partners, who designed the Imperial College entrance;
• Tonkin Liu, responsible for the Festival pavilion and the China Design Now exhibition design;
• 6A Architects and Brompton Estates, who are creating ‘pop-up’ architecture;
• Paticas Architecture, showing an innovative idea for developing countries;
• Yung Ho Chang, eminent Chinese architect.
• Penoyre and Prasad are interpreting the greatest Victorian ‘prefab’, the Crystal Palace, using helium weather balloons.
Installations by Virginia Tech, the Royal College of Art, Central St Martins College and London Metropolitan show new talent, and workshops and opportunities to participate will give ‘hands-on’ fun for all ages.
For more information about the displays, visit http://www.lfa2008.org/event.php?id=283&name=Explore+Sites+and+Sounds