Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Back from the UK

I'm back home in Brooklyn after my architecture-nerd summer school program, and I now have the daunting task of making sense of my experience, e.g. trying to remember all the places and things we saw and learned about, sorting through more than 900 photos (ah, the Digital Age!), and deciding on which "highlights" to share on my blog.
So I think I should start with my first day in London, which consisted of a reunion with Alexander and Anette (plus Lois), a much-needed nap, a pasta dinner, and a jumpin' Congolese pop concert at Southbank Centre, a gloriously '60s arts complex of theaters and plazas perched above the south bank of the Thames. What I should really be posting is a photo of Alexander African-dancing on stage with the Congolese pop band, but I must have been too busy with my own dancing to capture the moment. Instead, here are some photos I took outside the concert venue, Queen Elizabeth Hall, which is a fantastic Brutalist-style concrete pod dedicated by Her Majesty in 1967. The evening was lovely, with soft breezes and creeping dusk, and Southbank Centre was alive with people outside on the plazas drinking, socializing, strolling, and people-watching. I couldn't have asked for a more auspicious beginning to my trip.



1 comment:

  1. Yeah!!! A great evening beautifully captured and now memorialized forever on your blog:-) Write on, ye Luddite of little technological faith!

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