On September 9th, 2011, A MORNING VISIT TO THE LONDON EDIBLE ESTATE…
…(which was commissioned by Tate Modern in 2007) before heading to the airport for a flight to Istanbul, was a happy diversion (situated at the corner of Webber…
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On September 8th, 2011, URBAN WILDLIFE CLIENT SERVICES…
…is the subtitle of the upcoming London Animal Estates HQ project (which I am in town preparing for) coming to the world headquarters of to Arup (the massive…
On September 7th, 2011, RIDLEY’S FOOD FOR FOOD TEMPORARY DINING EXPERIENCE…
…opened tonight in the middle of London’s Ridley Road Market in Dalston – which I visited with my London Animal Estates collaborator Benjamin Reichen (of the super design…
On September 6th, 2011, A WELCOME LONDON GLOOM…
…is what our flight from Italy descended into this afternoon, arriving into London City airport from Brindisi, and after ten days of constant summer heat and sun with…
On September 5th, 2011, NIGHTLIFE IN OSTUNI…
…which seems to be a very tranquil town during the day, surprised me last night when the very designy chic bars and lounges spilled out on the the…
On September 4th, 2011, TRULLI THEN OSTUNI…
…was the order of the day, as I finally departed Lecce, continuing my Puglian journeys gradually making my way west then north on the slow side roads through…
On September 3rd, 2011, LECCE DECORATIONS…
…in super baroque style are intricately carved into local honey Lecce limestone covering every available square millimeter of each billboard-like neighborhood church facade, and parts of almost all of…
On September 2nd, 2011, PUGLIA’S TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TYPES…
…are what have drawn me to this place more than anything, such as the dry-stone conical domes of the trulli, modest shelters or residences found mostly in the…
On September 1st, 2011, A MASSERIA (WITH FRANTOIO IPOGEO)…
…is something I have had an intense architectural crush on since first reading about them last year (a fortified farmhouse unique to Puglia, often with a series of…
On August 31st, 2011, GALLIPOLI FISHERMEN AT SUNSET…
…this evening were just pulling back into the docks where crowds of locals were waiting to receive them…and why I wondered, was it their families? was it a…
On August 30th, 2011, A TOWER FOR PIGEONS…
…at the masseria I visited late this afternoon near Nardo’ must be the coolest thing I have seen on my Puglia adventures so far – an Animal Estate…
On August 29th, 2011, NARDO’…
…with a dreamy baroque historic center where old men bike around aimlessly and gather on benches with friends you imagine they grew up with on that same block,…
On August 28th, 2011, B&B AT PORTO SELVAGGIO…
…the beautiful beach cove, I had read about and dreamt about while researching Puglia last winter, which is isolated in a nature preserve just north of Galipoli and…
On August 27th, 2011, THE SALENTO WATERMELON HARVEST…
…never happened this year since it would cost the farmers more to harvest them than they could then sell them for – leading to some sad but beautiful…
On August 26th, 2011, GENOVA CENTRAL MARKET…
…is a pleasure the way all Italian markets are, where you are given an instant taste of the precise season, climate, weather, landscape, culture, economy, history, habits, and…
On August 25th, 2011, PALAZZO SAN GIORGIO IN GENOVA…
…the Italian town I have been curious about and yet to visit was conveniently on my way from Aix-en-Provence to Brindisi, so after a long windy scenic train…
On August 24th, 2011, LA FONTAINE D’EAU CHAUDE…
…the 1734 mossy mossy mossy green fountain on Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence where everyone is welcome to enjoy a peaceful primitive moment (despite it’s unfortunate current circumstance as…
On August 23rd, 2011, AIX-EN-PROVENCE…
…my next stop this afternoon as I gradually make my way by train south from meetings in the Netherlands to a long awaited pilgrimage to Italy’s mysterious heel…
On August 22nd, 2011, GRAND APPETIT…
…the simple casual homey delicious macrobiotic Marais cafe established in 1980, where you feel like you are dropping by your very cool exotic earthy French aunt and uncle’s…
On August 21st, 2011, ARTAZART DESIGN BOOKSTORE…
…on Canal St. Martin in my new favorite Paris neighborhood of Bellevue is a welcome find this afternoon – again biking my way to all corners of town…