By Liz Robbins By the lunch rush on Monday, the sun had maneuvered around the Midtown towers, warming a bustling three-block slice of Broadway, from 41st Street to 39th. In the pedestrian plaza, Roberta’s mobile wood-burning pizza oven was firing its sopressata-topped pies, for which the line seemed to stretch back to the restaurant’s Brooklyn home. Read article
By Elizabeth Hopkirk. Move comes as inquiry into John McAslan plan opens Conservationists trying to stop the redevelopment of Smithfield Market have put in an audacious application to have the buildings listed. The request by the Victorian Society and Save Britain’s Heritage was made less than 24 hours before today’s public inquiry was due to open. Read article
By Oliver Wainwright. February 7th 2014. Save Britain's Heritage calls McAslan plan for office and shops 'worst mutilation of a major Victorian building in 30 years' Read article
Urban Space Management alongside The Victorian Society and Save Britain’s Heritage have submitted a full planning application for Smithfield Market in an unprecedented bid to pre-empt a planning inquiry. Read article
The Independent’s Jessica Duchen talks to to Silent Opera about their forthcoming shows at Trinity Buoy Wharf. “We’re in uncharted territory, staring at a crystal ball. This glass globe adorns a table at Trinity Buoy Wharf – the Docklands river peninsula devoted to the arts and creative industries where anything can happen and often does. But am I really looking into the future of opera?…” Read article
Everyone knows what shipping containers are for. Transporting computers, television sets, cheap toys and a million other kinds of goods from one side of the world to the other. Read article
In times when the British public are constantly living in fear of the effects of recession, a community in east London has come up with a unique idea of converting shipping containers into liveable homes. Read article
If you're looking for London's liveliest urban village, it's hard to beat the streets around Smithfield Market, full of cafés, bars, pubs, pie shops and sushi bars. It's come to life, like Covent Garden before it, through natural regeneration. Read article
