Entries from Londonist tagged with 'thincities'
November 13, 2007
News of a film installation to be unveiled at Rayners Lane and Sudbury Town stations shortly alerted us to the fact that TfL's jolly and diverse Platform for Art programme had undergone a rebrand and will be relaunching as Art on the Underground at the end of this month. There's not much in a name, of course, but always fans of wordplay and puns we rather liked "Platform for Art". However, TfL has opted......
Continue Reading "Art On The Underground"February 9, 2007
When Freud divvied up the psyche and revealed the ego, superego and id, he left out one important element. The nerd. The nerd is perhaps the strongest component of Londonist's psychological makeup. We're therefore drawn to anything that involves an interactive, reworked Tube map and tales about the underground's history. So thanks to Platform for Art for nourishing our nerd with Thin Cities - The project responds to the theme of past, present and......
Continue Reading "Thin Cities by Platform for Art"September 11, 2006
Attention all budding Charles Holdens. Platform for Art, in association with the V&A are holding a competition to design the Piccadilly Line station of the future. Anyone can enter: children, adults with no previous engineering experience…even Multiplex. OK, so the winning designs won’t actually be built. But your work will be displayed in poster form, as part of the Piccadilly’s centenary celebrations. Naturally, we’ll be entering an improved reworking of Cockfosters, with predictable yet......
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