The annual Grand Designs show, fronted by Kevin McCloud, is on again, in Birmingham NEC, very easy to get to for most people in the UK unlike London. Kevin is doing book signings so check that out on the website. I am interested in what happened to the Swindon eco estate, I think it has [...]
The National Home Improvement Show is at Earls Court 1, Warwick Rd, London, SW5 9TA.
Friday 30 September – Sunday 2 October 2011
Friday 30 September 10:00 – 17.00
Saturday 1 October 10:00 – 17.00
Sunday 2 October [...]
There is a plan afoot to convert Riley’s snooker hall (once Jesters) on the corner of Wimbledon Park Road and Pirbright Road, Southfields London SW18, into a cinema.
Which it was originally.
Having been inside, it is a great building, proper full height ceiling and wasted as a snooker hall. Unless the vast space was for fag [...]
We visited the Serpentine last year – the Pavilion design is an annual challenge for architects and designers.
The Frank Gehry design was fantastic, very open and stimulating, possibly as it is like a traditional park bandstand but exploded out. Our friends the great London band Nought played there on the opening night.
See also:
Building DIY [...]
We had a visit to this fine castle in Kent, England. We have many images, please have a look at our image gallery for this building. There are also image folders for exteriors and interiors as well as the actual building.
Leeds Castle – stone building – Kent UK >
See also our page on Building DIY [...]
We visited the Grand Design 2009 exhibition at Excel London, it was very good.
We have images from it at our new large image photo section in our main website at BuildingDIY photo image library
In four sections:
Build
Gardens
Kitchens and Bathrooms
Interiors
Build was the least busy which indicates the ‘wannabe’ nature of the Grand Designs program. Drool after the [...]
