Pop-Up Storefront London

21st June - 20th July '08

Pop-up Storefront London
1-5 Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2HE

Pop-up Storefront London is part of a series of temporary outposts of Storefront for Art and Architecture, a New York-based gallery committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design.

For this year’s London Festival of Architecture Storefront will appear in London with the exhibition CPH Experiments featuring a series of recent design projects and large-scale models by the Copenhagen-based architecture practice BIG/Bjarke Ingels Group. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a model of the Mountain Dwellings made out of 250,000 LEGO bricks.

BIG's architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. In their projects, BIG tests the effects of size and the balance of programmatic mixtures on the triple bottom line of the social, economical and ecological outcome. Like a form of programmatic alchemy, they create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, and shopping.

For the exhibition the projects will be presented in a multitude of fashions ranging from images of life in the VM houses post-occupation, through to the 250.000 piece LEGO model inhabited by 1000 LEGO people.

On July 4, Storefront will hold a day-long event hosted by Geoff Manaugh, founder of BLDGBLOG and senior editor of Dwell magazine, San Francisco.

www.lfa2008.org