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Blog Blurb


a matter of urban light is a design blog with the aim of exhibiting truly inspirational projects in landscape architecture and lighting within the urban environment. This blog will be created in tangent with my third year study of landscape architecture at Kingston University in London with the aim of hopefully moving into a career based on lighting in landscape architecture and the built environment.


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Aaron Carpenter


“Lighting design goes one step further, Setting moods and radiating aspirations.” Clare Lowther and Sarah Schultz


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Wednesday, 1 December 2010

London’s Olympic View Tube






The View Tube is a social and community based centre built upon a small evaluation over looking the London Olympic development. The centre has been built from recycled shipping containers which houses educational facilities, an art space, information points and a café with extensive panoramic views over the development. To access the centre you have to walk through twisting corridors that lead you through parts of the development. The View Tube is a partnership project between Leaside Regeneration, London Thames Gateway Development Corporation, the Olympic Delivery Authority and Thames Water. The View Tube is a must see in london, located by Pudding Mill Lane station on the DLR (Docklands Light Rail). The centre also offers cycle hire allowing you to pick up a bike and cycle along parts of the national cycle network. Providing great views of the site, and of the surrounding areas such as the Lea Valley which the Olympic site is situated in. The Lea valley is a nationally and internationally recognized beauty spot and important nature reserve in London. The river Lea which runs through the Lea Valley connects many nature reserves and reservoirs making it the biggest green network in london stretching 26 miles.

http://www.theviewtube.co.uk/home.html

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