The London Traveler

 
Next Saturday will see Tate Modern assailed by mountain bikers from all over the world. Bikers will be competing in the final of the second annual Nissan freeriding competition.
As if this wasn’t urban cool enough, Nissan is also sponsoring the Street Art exhibition at the Tate, with displays both inside the gallery and on the streets outside (you can get a map in the gallery).
Where: outside Tate Modern
When: Saturday 24th May, all day
 Photo credit: photo courtesy of Staniforth PR on behalf of the Nissan Qashqai Challenge

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Tate Modern has sprung a new sight on London to join the interesting riverbank scene.
In a joint venture with the Design Museum, Tate Modern is hosting an icon of modern architecture – the Maison Tropicale by French architect Jean Prouvé. It’s a stunning creation which to me looks like a cross between Le Corbusier’s cool rationalism and the tinniness of an American diner. Perhaps nowadays it doesn’t look too shocking, but in its day it must have been quite a stunning innovation. Even today it has lessons to teach – how to reconcile prefabrication with artistic integrity.
In fact Prouvé could …read more

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