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Giant Boris Gnome planned for Garden Bridge![]() Superstar designer Jonas Featherwyck has designed a giant ‘Boris Gnome’ in a bid to fund the shortfall for his troubled multimillion pound Thames Garden Bridge project. The five-metre high Gnome, which resembles London Mayor Boris Johnson, has been commissioned by Joanie Lubley who said the sculpture will be fashioned from a new material called cheesecrete. “It’s a charming blend of concrete and cheese,” she said. “Darling Jonas created it – by accident apparently – one day in his atelier.” The sculpture will be sited on the north end of the bridge, forming a toll, through which visitors can pass on payment of a £25 charge. The bridge project has been at the centre of ‘fix claims’ after Freedom of Information requests revealed Lubley, the originator and chief backer of the bridge, has known Boris ‘since he was about four or something’. Commentators have said the Boris Gnome is a ‘distraction’ designed to draw attention away from further investigations into the relationship between the platinum blonde Mayor and the Absolutely Fantastic actor. A source close to the project refused to disclose why the star designer of the Intertoto Cauldron, and the Hopponov Bus took on the commission. Instead he claimed the cheesecrete was originally going to be used to mimic just the mayor’s famous moptop. He added: “Lubley’s talking rubbish. It wasn’t a accident. Nothing we do at Featherwyks is an accident and we don’t copy anything either. Ever. But when Jonas realised the sculptural potential afforded by cheesecrete – its pungentialality is how Jonas put it - he fainted.” Building Journal’s News manager Bill Wurst, the journalist responsible for making the FOI requests, said: “It smells bad.” Featherwyck refused to comment. |
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London Transport Museum - A-Z London![]() A rare opportunity to see inside London Transport Museum’s Depot in Acton, West London, will take place on 23 and 24 April 2016. Design enthusiasts and family visitors to the Museum’s The A to Z of London Open Weekend will have the chance to look around this working Museum Depot, which holds over 320,000 artefacts from London’s transport history and is usually closed to the public. The event will celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the Johnston typeface, created by calligrapher Edward Johnston, with themed workshops, tours, talks and family fun. London Transport Museum: A-Z London |
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