The Cans Festival
The Cans Festival it’s taking place in a South London railway tunnel, rented for the occasion from Eurostar. Forty of the world’s best graffers have gathered beneath Lambeth’s streets to create original pieces for this showcase which kicks-off with a private view tonight. The festival ran over the bank holiday weekend and although it took the best part of an hour to get in it was well worth the wait.

London Open City
Design for London works with organisations across the city to make it more beautiful, legible and accessible, and London Open City offers every Londoner the opportunity to contribute to this project. The exhibition shows the 'tug-of-war' nature of London life that is only exaggerated by the city’s fast pace: order versus chaos, interaction versus privacy, heritage versus change.

Open City

Ton Matton - Surviving the Suburb: the Climate Machine
This installation explores the urban dwelling of the future. Described as 'an optimistic research machine', it presents possibilities for day-to-day city life transformed by climate change and continuing globalisation. The elements exhibited include adaptations of familiar domestic objects like a 'shitake' kitchen sink with mushroom bed beneath, or other more speculative 'white goods' of the future such as an urban chicken house. It is not climate change itself but how society reacts that is researched here: what effect will it have on how we live, on our urban structures and domestic space?

Back to the Future: Sir Basil Spence (1907-76) Celebration of a Modern Architect
This exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of Sir Basil Spence, charting the career of one of the most important British architects of the Post-War Era. It focusses on his most important buildings and projects: such as the Sea and Ships Pavilion at the 1951 Festival of Britain and the iconic Coventry Cathedral (1956-62), as well as other key projects like the British Embassy in Rome (1971).

Cityscape
Cityscape had its annual show at Earls Court, this is the industry show for Architects and Landscape Architects it also focuses on current issues in the industry with a series of seminars. This year the focus was based heavily on sustainability and green products. There was a massive amount on Green Roof technologies as well as some of the more mundane aspects of the industry. Students of Kingston University were represented in the form of the ‘Slick’ stand, the stand had samples of our work and was manned to two third year Kingston students

Anthony McCall
This light show at the Serpentine Gallery is a must see and has an amazing atmosphere created by the artist Anthony McCall. Only problem is that you can’t take any photos as I found out and was ticked of several times. Its free to get in and well worth a trip. It would be really nice to this technology used in the landscape some how.

Form Kensington Olympia
This exhibition was a collection of contemporary design mainly focusing on furniture and piece of art work. The exhibition cost us £6 to get in and was worth every pound. There were so many piece's of work i wanted to take home with me but not even a years worth of student loans be enough to buy anything with. But the inspiration and ideas that it's given me made it well worth the trip.

City Scape Earls Court
I went to City Space with much hope that there would be some great new materials and exhibitors showing off there new contemporary designs. This however was not what happened. Instead we got 2,000 fat balding middle aged men in suits all named Colin. I guess this was just more of a glamorised trade fair and if your were working in a practise problem very use full but as a student i didn't take a lot from it.