Hello all readers of the blog, nice to see you nice, well, it's finally over, the ten days are up and the final event is just around the corner. Looking back on it, it has been a great time, i've learnt truck loads of stuff about King's X and architecture, so it's been well worth it and I suppose i'll go into more detail in the event.
The last two days, Friday in Lille and Saturday fan-zine making was a nice cresendo to the project. No problems getting to and back to King's X surprisingly, Kofi got there at 6 am, Ruby wasn't too stressed out, and no massive queue and disappionted people in the station, good times. We arrived at Lille about 10ish, and Tom gave us a quick talk about the Eurolille station and shopping centre, although, i certainly felt i wasn't in France yet, the interior and exterior of the shoping centre didn't seem, well, 'French', or it didn't give me the French vibe. Certainly an impressive megastructure, post-war buidling always look impressive. Then we took a walk into old town, then the real old town, and now it felt like i was in France, it was great, the outside cafes, no curbs, just a chain to seperate people and cars, and the tiny details on seemingly insignificant buildings impressed me more than the megastructures. Then lunch, no matter where in the world you go, one can always find chicken and chips. Then we walked around for a bit, looking at buidlings, history, context, the usual architecture talk. A visit to a couple of cake shops and a metro ride later, that was it, back to London. Good day.
The next day, we worked with Tom Keeley, who we met on the first day, on the fan-zine. I came in the afternoon to work on it, and we agreed on the name: More arrivals/Too many departures, which is a sweet title. And we met Sarah for the first time, who is the director of the architecture foundation, so it was good to met the person who made this happen. The fan-zine production was great and can't wait to see the final print.
So it's now time to get ready for the event, watch this space 'cause this isn't good bye from us.
Antony