London and Venice

The year's work focused on readings of the city, through historical sources, myth and narrative. Sites were chosen individually in and around London, with each proposal taking as its inspiration a connection between London and Venice.

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Nadzryan Faqrul

The programme for Nadzryan’s Canaletto Gallery, sited on the banks of the Thames, is driven by an analysis of Canaletto’s use of the camera obscura and perspective studies of Canaletto’s paintings of Venice and London. This, conbined with a narrative journey along the River Thames, is used to devise a series of gallery spaces creating discrete views across the river and through the gallery. nadzryan_600.jpg

Zoran Radivojevic

Zoran’s proposal explores how both cities are inextricably linked to their landscape. Zoran looked at local weather and tidal patterns and explored ideas of the passeggiata, proposing a public path, cut into the landscape along side a series of pavilions and gallery spaces that explored weathering and erosion on a corner of a proposed housing development in Dagenham, on the north bank of the Thames.
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Georgios Tsivolas

Georgios' proposal for a promenade theatre on the inner city banks of the River Thames, explores the temporal nature of performance, tidal zones and the labyrinthine qualities of East London's Wapping Wall.georgios_600.jpg