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| The Waterman Coworking & Amenity Spaces – London |
Some people meditate, some people pray, I do jigsaw puzzles. I find them calming. Jigsaw Planet displays thumbnails of the puzzles along with a brief description. You can't always tell from the thumbnail just exactly what the finished puzzle will look like, and the descriptions can be less than helpful (the description of this puzzle is 'interior'), so it's kind of a crap shoot on what you are going to end up with. I wasn't expecting an office, but that's what it is.
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| The Waterman Coworking & Amenity Spaces |
The Waterman Coworking & Amenity Spaces – London
Fathom Architects transformed four Victorian warehouses in London into a cohesive workspace, emphasizing heritage conservation, sustainability, and contemporary design through honest expression and material re-use.
Fathom Architects has completed one of the largest heritage retrofit projects in Clerkenwell, London – an ambitious re-imagining of four Victorian warehouses over 70,000sqft on Farringdon Road.
Nice thing about the UK is they still using feet and inches, not like all those other dreadful Europeans.
Address is 147-149 Farringdon Rd, London, UK
Pretty good show except for all the faggotry. Dang nab it, why do they gotta be sticking faggots in all these shows? When I watch a TV show or a movie I want escapist fantasy where all the women are beautiful, the guys are all heroic, and all the characters are straight heterosexuals. I don't need any faggots besmirching my fantasy, they are repulsive and disgusting.
But what you gonna do? Kill all the faggots? Historically, that has been the preferred solution for some, maybe all, religions. Islam still preaches that. Mainstream Christianity seems to be learning to deal with them. Western civilization seems to consider faggots people, and killing people without permission from the lord high executioner is forbidden.
Faggots, except for being faggots, can be good people. They can be smart, productive members of society. As long as they can keep their faggotiness under wraps, I am happy to deal with them.
Lesbians I don't mind near as much. I like women, mostly because I am sexually attracted to them, so I can see why women would be attracted to other women - if they are good looking. As for ugly women, well, that's why god invented alcohol.
Anyway, enough about that. Back to the show and besides my previously mentioned objections, it's pretty great. We are looking at a niche of society where the law doesn't much matter. Well, it matters enough that our players will be careful to avoid involving the police, but that isn't really too difficult, if you have a brain and can use it. We have one group of people dealing in stolen information and another group that deals in bullets, and sometimes the information thieves hire the killers, and sometimes other people hire the killers to kill the information thieves.
Samuel, an ugly little faggot, got started in this 'society' as a gofer and moved on to become a triggerman. His sexual preferences aside, he is a reliable and loyal killer.
This little 'society' has been upset by the entrance of some new, unknown, players. Previously, everyone knew everyone else and everyone eventually knew what was going on. So and so took out the bloke that was skimming from that gangster, so and so works with that mean chick, that drug dealer is overstepping his bounds. That was the world they operated in. But now someone has killed the Chinese ambassador, his daughter is missing, and somebody killed a dozen of the drug dealer's henchmen, and nobody has a clue who this is. Smells like government agents to me. Could be the SAS, or maybe the CIA, or maybe somebody from Asia has come to town for a specific purpose.
Eventually we get to the uber-secret society that has upset our apple cart, and being as we finished watching this show last week, I don't remember how exactly it played out, but I'm pretty sure it's pointing to a second season.
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| Battersea Power Station Phase 3 |
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| Central London Landmarks Battersea Power Station Project in the foreground This is a great view, click to embiggenate. |
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| Battersea Power Station Project, view from the Northeast |
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| Rendering of a apartment building similar to the one at top |
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| Eastern aspect of Battersea Power Station Phase 3 proposal |
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| Winfield House |
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| Barbara Woolworth Hutton (1912 - 1979) |
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| Winfield House in London |
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| US Embassy London UK Also Known As The Sugar Cube |
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| London Metals Exchange Building It's the one with the wavy front and the oval-ish top floor |
Bayou Renaissance Man reports on the fallout from the London Metals Exchange disaster that happened earlier this year. It's an entertaining story.
Turns out the London Metals Exchange is actually in London, not Hong Kong. It is owned by some outfit in Hong Kong which is where my confusion originated. The field in back of the building belongs to the Honorable Artillery Company and was originally used for archery. Now it is also used for cricket.
This is a fun little monster story set in 1827 in London. The year is important because several historical figures appear in the story.
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| Faraday Building (green roof, center) St. Paul's Cathedral (upper right) Some modern abominstion (lower left) Thames River (bottom) |
Brian Micklethwait put up some pictures of St. Paul's Cathedral and noted that the Faraday building partially blocks the view of St. Paul's from across the river. The Faraday Building? That sounds kind of cool in a 19th Century kind of steampunkish / electrical engineering kind of way. I mean, Faraday was one of the founding fathers of our electrified world. Alas, only the name has survived, all remnants of the telephone exchange that it was originally built to house are gone leaving just more pedestrian businesses. Google Maps doesn't even recognize it as the Faraday Building. Google puts it three miles south, across the river in Camberwell.
I couldn't find a decent picture of the building so once again I resorted to using Google's 3D Viewer.
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| Telephone Keystone on the Faraday Building |
