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Monet and Architecture at the National Gallery London

9 April – 29 July 2018.

The National Gallery in London features an exhibition dedicated to Claude Monet’s paintings of architecture. The image above is of Monet’s Thames below Westminster (La Tamise et le Parlement) painted about 1871. © The National Gallery, London. National Gallery

Open House 2018

Events

22-23 September 2018.

Open House London, which started in 1992, is the world’s largest architecture festival, giving free public access to over 800 buildings, walks, talks and tours over one weekend in September each year. Each year over a quarter of a million people take part. Open House.

Jean Nouvel LessLess Table

Design/ Furniture

LessLess is a complete range of tables, rectangular and square, painted in different colors. An aluminum table the strength of which lies in a play on corners and folds. The external outline of the horizontal table top is very thin and stiffness and it is obtained by bending the aluminum sheet along inclined planes. Designed by Jean Nouvel, originally for the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the LessLess tables is a result from his approach to design which comes from a need to create objects for his own architectures. Molteni & C

Stirling prize 2016 Caruso St John Newport St Gallery

Architecture

Newport Street Gallery involved the conversion and transformation of a street facing a railway line in Vauxhall, south London, into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst’s private art collection. Three listed Victorian industrial buildings, formerly carpentry and scenery painting workshops for West End theatres, have been remodelled and flanked at either end by entirely new buildings; one with a spiky saw-tooth roof. RIBA.