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THE ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY OF BEDFORD LEMERE & CO Photographers to the establishment of the late 19th and early 20th century the company captured industry, commerce and leisure. > To 30 October V&A/ RIBA Architecture Gallery Room, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
www.vam.ac.uk POWER OF MAKING
Obviously crafted objects and the process of making: coffin, cake and crochet. What a collection! > 6 September to 2 January Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
www.vam.ac.uk
HERITAGE OPEN DAYS Four days to explore some of the treasures (and oddities) of England. Openings this year include a good tranche of normally inaccessible dirty and smelly buildings: the decontamination chamber at Greenham Common, the last herring smokehouse in Great Yarmouth and the oldest bogs in Leeds. Plus more refined temples, cinemas and townhouses. > 8 to 11 September Around England
www.heritageopendays.org.uk MAKE SHIFT
Half-built or half-derelict? The question lingers over much of artist Emily Speed’s work . Her physical and literal portrayal of buildings finds a home in the many spaces of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. > To 18 September Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, WF4 4LG
www.ysp.co.uk
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL Umbrella for design events across the city. In a specially commissioned piece John Pawson will turn the geometric staircase in St Paul’s Cathedral into an optical device: a rather clever sort of periscope. > 17 to 25 September Various locations
www.londondesignfestival.com
ZUMTHOR’S SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION 2011 Can this be dour and delicious? See Zumthor’s garden within a garden and until 17 September visit Michelangelo Pistoletto’s maze, the Mirror of Judgement. > To 16 October
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W3 3XA
www.serpentinegallery.org
JUNYA ISHIGAMI ARCHITECTURE AS AIR A study in transparency developed from the Japanese architect’s award-winning Venice Biennale last year. Delicate and delightful installation. > To 16 October The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
www.barbican.org.uk
KENNETH GRANGE: MAKING BRITAIN MODERN From domestic (Kenwood mixers, Parker pens) to transport (the Intercity 125 and the latest London taxi cab) Kenneth Grange has designed many of the things that shape and improve our lives. > To 30 October Design Museum, Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
DAVID MACH: PRECIOUS LIGHT Scenes from the King James Bible, many set against city
backdrops, most notably hell in Paris, Tokyo, Disneyland and Dublin. Wondrous, as is his match-head devil and coat hanger Christ. > To 16 October City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DE
www.davidmach.com
LUCY SKAER AURÉLIEN FROMENT Two films. Skaer’s in an
abandoned cinema and gradually deteriorating itself as it is shown over and over. And Froment’s is a set of interconnected films in an art-house cinema on the peculiar role of the chair. Are you sitting comfortably?
> Skaer: 28 September to 15 December
Lyric House, 113-115 Tong Road, Leeds LS12 1QJ
> Froment: 14 October to 12 January then touring Hyde Park Picture House, Brudenell Road, Leeds, LS6 1JD
www.pavilion.org.uk
ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS AUTOCONSTRUCCION Shrunken heads and a tricycle based sculpture are the result of Cruzvillegas’ exploration of Oxford and its history with more than a little of his personal language thrown in.
> 27 September to 20 November Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP
www.modernartoxford.org.uk
MARTIN CREED: SCOTSMAN STEPS 104 steps leading up from near Edinburgh’s Waverley Station to the old town. Marble slabs, in many colours and patterns. Subtle but transformational. > Open daily
Scotsman Steps, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DF
WWW.RIBAJOURNAL.COM : SEPTEMBER 2011
EXPERIENCE THIS HIGH ARCTIC
Sound, light and forms by United Visual Artists and Cape Farewell conjure up an abstracted Arctic landscape over 820m2
of new gallery. It
sounds intense and interactive (ultraviolet torches to show hidden elements) – though luckily not cold. Quite a contrast to the modern Sammy Ofer Wing designed by CF Møller and Purcell Miller Tritton that opened in earlier in the summer.
DON’T MISS
OPEN HOUSE LONDON Homes (eco, retrofit and more), regeneration projects and government buildings open around the capital. The theme is the Liveable City, visit Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre or the new Mayville Community Centre retrofitted by Bere: Architects, or revel in the many other projects with landscape at their heart.
17-18 September Around London www.
openhouselondon.
org.uk
To 13 January National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
www.nmm.ac.uk
NICOLA BROWNE
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