The temporary architecture of Covid-19

Mobile Testing Unit, Canada Water Is anybody documenting the temporary architecture of COVID-19?All those pop-up testing, vaccine and booster centres. White marquees in lockdown-emptied carparks. Public buildings grand and shabby transformed into collection points for saliva and mucus. Neighbourhood chemists with queues round the block administering life-saving vaccines.Testing Centre by Devonport House, GreenwichIn a nation obsessed ...

Printworks: All that’s fit to print

Friend of BC, James, has been to The Printworks in Canada Water and after an all-day rave at our new resident super club, he is keen to tell you how impressed he was by the soundproofing. The party animal writes:We descended on London’s newest, and perhaps only, super club – Printworks – on Saturday, for ...

Printworks, Canada Water

The opening weekendPrintworks is a new 5,000-capacity music and arts venue on the site of the old Associated Newspaper printing presses in Canada Water. Following an opening party this month, its line-up in March includes events hosted by Melt Festival, Nina Kravitz and The Hydra.Printworks has doubled as a Death Star and a zombie rat ...

Almost useful – the night tube

This is TfL's official map of the night tube service, starting in September. It skirts Greater Brockley, stopping at Canada Water.This will become slightly more useful if the night buses connecting that station (currently the subject of a consultation exercise) with Bellingham get expanded. It will get a lot more useful when the East London ...

Canada Water and the Old Kent Road targeted for intense development

The Mayor of London is currently consulting on proposed alterations to The London Plan - including creating new "opportunity areas" in Bromley, Old Oak Common, Harrow & Wealdstone and most significantly for us, Canada Water and the Old Kent Road.The LP is a high-level blueprint for the future of our city. It's the reason why new ...