This week’s London Architecture Biennale has begun with an exhibition about the future of London’s skyline and the herding of sheep over the Millennium Bridge by two of the city’s most celebrated architects.
Gherkin City Cut (above), a visual representation of the London skyline if the Swiss Re tower is eventually listed, is one of a host of images being shown at the Airspace exhibition as part of the Biennale.
This year’s week-long Biennale focuses in particular on regeneration in the capital, specifically at King’s Cross, the City and Southwark.
On Saturday, 10,000 people watched “Shard of Glass” architect Renzo Piano and Lord Rogers drive a herd of 60 Herdwick sheep across the Millennium Bridge, en route from Borough Market to Smithfield Market, to commemorate the festival.
Yesterday the Biennale awarded London mayor Ken Livingstone’s Architecture and Urbanism Unit the London Hero award for doing the most in the past year to improve the quality of the environment in the capital.
Other events and exhibitions include:
- A series of Big Breakfasts with hosts including Jude Kelly, art director at the South Bank Centre, politician and journalist Boris Johnson, author Alain du Bottom and Janet Street Porter, The Independent’s editor at large.
- A talk by Sir Terry Farrell on plans for the Euston Road area of London
- An exhibition focusing on the regeneration of Southwark, The Southwark Effect, at The Ragged School, in Union Street.
- An exhibition about the Thames, Peter Ackroyd’s Thames, on the Millennium Bridge.
References: EGi News 21/06/06
