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LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS EVENTS & AUCTIONS BUSINESS & FINANCE DINING OUT MOTORING & SPORT ARTS & CULTURE LITERATURE ASTRONOMY & CHESS OPINION & COMMENT KCWKENSINGTON, CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITHto & FULHAM, WANDSWORTH a y AND SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS ISSUE 83 MAY 2019 FREE CROSSWORD & BRIDGE EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT FEATURING BOARDING Design © Tim Epps Tim Design © HEALTH SUPPLEMENT FEATURING CARE FACILITIES making your mark AATHE EVOLUTION OF WRITING AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY 2 SeptemberAugustMay 2019 2018 2018 Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today www.KCWToday.co.uk Contents & Offices Kensington, Chelsea LONDON NEWS, GLOBAL VIEWS & Westminster Today Contents KCWKENSINGTON, CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER, HAMMERSMITHto & FULHAM, WANDSWORTH a y AND SELECT LONDON BOROUGHS ISSUE 82 APRIL 2019 FREE NEWS BUSINESS & FINANCE 80-100 Gwynne Road, London, HEALTH DINING OUT MOTORING SW11 3UW ARTS & CULTURE FASHION LIFESTYLE LITERATURE Tel: 020 7738 2348 ASTRONOMY OPINION & COMMENT SPORT CROSSWORD BRIDGE CHESS EDUCATION E-mail: [email protected] SECTION Website: 3 News www.kcwtoday.co.uk Advertisement enquiries: [email protected] Statue & Blue Plaque 10 THE ART OF Subscriptions: PERSUASION: WARTIME POSTERS [email protected] BY ABRAM GAMES AT THE NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM UNTIL 24 NOVEMBER 2019 Publishers: The Army Education Scheme. 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June will see the capital thrum a mark. This tour showcases the ways L that the livelihoods, cultures and divers series of over 400 events exploring this year’s ‘boundaries’ theme across practices of these diverse communities London from 1-30 June. The London have interacted with one another over Festival of Architecture (LFA) is the hundreds of years - leaving layer upon world’s largest annual architecture layer of intriguing histories. festival, with a stated mission to support London’s architectural and design talent, Architecture for the dead: burial enthuse and engage with the public, and grounds and crypts in 18th-19th find new ways to look at familiar places. century London Bridge LFA2018 attracted over 600,000 visitors The Old Operating Theatre Museum rooted and originating in a place, like practices which address the public good and a global audience of 122 million. and Herb Garret, 6 June an indigenous plant that has always just another form of patronage to ease The 2019 programme features belonged, or global, transient and non- the guilt of a design-conscious elite? exhibitions and installations, talks and No boundary is as definitive as the native? It challenges people to reassess One of a series of lively and provocative debates, walks and tours, family events boundary that separates the living from the boundaries around the history and debates hosted by Fourthspace. and a wide range of special events. the dead. Around the London Bridge language of the terms native/exotic, While LFA events take place in every area there were many ancient burial natural/man-made, with a playful Brutalism on a human scale corner of London, this year’s programme grounds which now have disappeared. garden rich with reference and meaning. The Silver Building, features many events focused in four Kirsty Chilton narrates a tale of how throughout June specially-designated Festival Hubs: the these boundaries were defined and how Negroni talks: Who’s your daddy? City of London, London Bridge, the they can still be felt around us after Ombra, 24 June This exhibition in the Royal Docks Royal Docks and the Heart of London several centuries of re-development. focuses on the post-war architecture of district covering St James’s, Piccadilly Architecture has a difficult relationship Belgian architect Léon Stynen, whose Circus and Leicester Square. The quintessential English garden: with privilege. When education was work is characterised by brutalism with From street dance and a séance at what does it mean to be native? free we saw the rise of the working class a sensitivity to the human scale. Large- John Soane’s country retreat to debates Cabot Square, 10 June – 12 July architect: Norman Foster describes his scale photographs by Filip Dujardin challenging architecture’s hidden childhood on the wrong side of the show Stynen’s buildings in their current boundaries of gender and privilege, we’re Lily Jencks Studio’s pop-up garden tracks in Manchester. Could someone condition, alongside a selection of pieces including a sneak preview of some of the tests the long-standing question which rise to prominence like this today or is from the Stynen archive. highlights of this year’s festival before we drives identity politics around the the system rigged for Hooray Henrys cover in depth next month: globe. What does it mean to be local, and Sloane Rangers? Are the emerging Crossrail have announced that Crossrail: Where the remaining fit-out and systems installation in the stations and tunnels we are now will be completed this year. This Photograph © TfL will allow the new stations and rail infrastructure to be integrated with the new plan to finally complete the outstanding works on Crossrail, rest of the railway. Crossrail also expects and bring the Elizabeth line into that Bombardier Transportation and passenger service at the earliest possible Siemens will complete development of A the train and signalling software this date has been developed by the new Crossrail leadership team and agreed by year allowing the train control system to the Crossrail Ltd Board. be fully tested. The new plan has required complex project and there will be delivery challenges. Once the central Each Elizabeth line station has over identifying and re-sequencing over challenges ahead, particularly with section opens, full services across 50 km of communications cabling, 100,000 interdependent tasks and takes the testing of the train and signalling the Elizabeth line from Reading and 200 CCTV cameras, 66 information full account of exactly what is to be systems, but the Elizabeth line is going Heathrow in the west to Abbey Wood displays, 200 radio antennas, 750 done and how long it will take. As many to be incredible for London and really and Shenfield in the east, will commence loudspeakers and 50 help points. All this risks and uncertainties remain in the will be worth the wait. This new plan as soon as possible. technology is yet to be fully installed, development and testing of the train and will get us there and allow this fantastic As the completion work proceeds tested and integrated. signalling systems, Crossrail Ltd has new railway to open around the end of Crossrail Ltd has expressed their Dynamic testing of the trains in the identified a six-month delivery window next year.” he concluded. intention to provide Londoners with tunnels are currently underway with with a midpoint at the end of 2020. The central section of the Elizabeth regular progress reports, and increasingly intensive work to increase the reliability “I share the frustration of Londoners line will open between Paddington and specific estimates of when the Elizabeth of the train software to enable trains that the huge benefits of the Elizabeth Abbey Wood and link the West End, line will open so as to avoid the lack to successfully operate across the three line are not yet with us’ claimed Mark the City of London, Canary Wharf of transparency that helped lead to signalling systems on the Elizabeth line. Wild, Chief Executive of Crossrail Ltd and southeast London, initially with 12 the collapse of the original deadlines. Trains have been operating at line speed in a statement. ‘But this plan allows trains per hour during the peak. Crossrail’s initial budget was 15 billion, (100 kph / 62 mph) in the central section Crossrail Ltd and its contractors