Whilst the weather was still reasonable, I popped up to London on Saturday to visit both the Astrophotography Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, and the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition.
The photos on display at the astrophotography exhibition were awe-inspiring, with a selection making me nostalgic for the arctic winters I experienced in Tromsø. The level of resolution of certain photos - for instance nebulae, the surface of our Sun, or the Milky Way itself, that folks are able to achieve using ground-based set-ups (admittedly, specialist, and unlikely to be cheap), but still, ground based, is astonishing.
The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition had two halls dedicated to architectural works, with a great many models on display, both recent and historic, that were well worth the look to anyone: professional, or student. There were also a great many drawings, technical or otherwise, which would be informative to both students and professionals looking for inspiration for infographics or representational methods. A collection of photographs of works of interest (but by no means exhaustive) are shown below. The names of the works, from top left:
The Royal Norwegian Embassy to the People’s Republic of China, Beijing - Haptic Architects
Lloyd’s of London (Scale 1:200) - The late Lord Rogers of Riverside
The Pompidou Centre (Scale 1:100) - The late Lord Rogers of Riverside
Material Lifecycle (600 Million Years) - Groupwork
Cultural Centre, Delhi - CRAB Studio
Acconia Ombu, Madrid - Lord Foster of Thames Bank
Alzheimer’s and Architecture - Philip Springall
Tree Beacon - Petroc Sesti
Whilst walking around Greenwich, I also took the opportunity to have some fun with a smaller Sony camera of mine, as considering the weather, I did not fancy lugging the larger Canon around with me: