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Tower Blocks & Real Estate Dreams
As an aesthetic, urban ‘council estate’ chic is now ubiquitous within visual culture. From fashion shoots to music videos, this common vernacular often provides a ‘how the other half live’ gaze....
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Always Coca-Cola
Situated between residential and industrialised Edmonton, lies Angel Edmonton Road: a bridge that connects two not so disparate places and home to the Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd, north London factory....
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Rik Moran :: Q&A
flâneur (flaˈnəː French flanœʀ/) noun. a man who saunters around observing society. Rik Moran (rɪk/ • \ˈmȯr-ˌän\) noun. a man known for celebrating the unseen, hidden and uncelebrated; documenting his...
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The Keen Eye :: The London Housing Bubble
In London, the cost of an average home is currently around £515,000. According to research compiled by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) for the National Association of Estate...
View ArticleLBB on NTS :: Walter’s Way: The Self-Build Revolution
The maxim of an ‘English man’s home is his castle’ is fast losing its traction in contemporary Britain. The average age of a first time home buyer in the UK is currently in their mid-thirties compared...
View ArticleLBB on NTS :: This Brutal House
Graphic designer, Head of Year at Chelsea College of Arts, and This Brutal House founder Peter ‘Popular’ Chadwick, joins us in the NTS studios to discuss his journey from Twitter to book deal, with...
View ArticleSocial historian John Boughton on generation rent and a common sense approach...
Over a third of the population lived in council homes at peak in the early 1980s. It’s a huge part of people’s lived experience and yet it’s a neglected history and too often a maligned one, dominated...
View ArticleNairobi-based multimedia artist Dicky Jnr muses on the inspiration(s) for his...
A year ago I visited Lamu and was hooked the moment I set foot on the island. Lamu is heaven, except better. I have been a practicing multimedia designer for 10 years, but rather than only identify as...
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