Designs on Cycling the City, a new exhibition at New London Architecture, Store Street, WC1, showcases the finalists of “Reinventing the Bike Shed”, an international design competition seeking radical new ideas for bike parking, and illustrates some of the challenges of urban cycling.
New London Architecture, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT Monday 30 October - Saturday 18 November Open Mon-Fri 9am-6pm / Sat 10am-4pm. Closed Sundays.
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Content curated by
Adam Thorpe, DAC Research Centre, UAL
Stephanie Laslett and Jason Cornish Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects
Andrea Casalotti, Velorution
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The competition judges are
Wayne Hemingway, designer and founder of Red or Dead Jon Snow, Channel 4 News John Grimshaw, Director of Sustrans Vicky Richardson, editor of Blueprint Adam Thorpe, designer/researcher for Bikeoff/DAC at the University of the Arts London Jason Cornish, Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects Andrea Casalotti, proprietor of Velorution
They were looking for pioneering and beautiful bike storage solutions for urban living, on any scale and for any end use. The winners will be announced at the Private View on Tuesday 31 October 2006.
This exhibition follows the very successful Reinventing the Bike Shed launch exhibition at The Arches, Tooley Street as part of the London Architecture Biennale in June 2006. Curated by Adam Thorpe, of Bikeoff at the Design Against Crime research centre at University of the Arts London.
