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Made for Me Watch This Space Smartly Dressed Enjoy life in and around the place you live Summer/Autumn 2013 The future issue Made for Me Product design gets personal Watch this space Space tourism blasts off sMARTLY DRESSED Fashion meets function Take Sound editors Chris Abel Nick Jones The fuTure issue SeriouSly deputy editor Katie Park design director Matt hill London has always been a city at the forefront of progress and innovation. digital design from the adventurers who departed the city in search of new lands, to simon hodgkinson today's digital 'explorers' dreaming up the latest technological advances. picture editor sarah Moor st James is a company dedicated to innovation. harnessing the very latest production manager Cynthia Duku-Asamoah in design, technology and construction to create unique lifestyles that are Writers truly world-class. This year, in particular, sees the launch of two schemes – hayley Ard Merano residences and The Corniche – both of which will afford a living Josh sims rebecca hattersley experience unlike anything seen in the city before. We are a proud member Claire Walsh harriet Cox of the Berkeley Group of companies, one of theu K's most respected publisher residential developers. Totality uK Ltd cover so it seems fitting that we dedicate this edition ofh omes & London to our The Corniche, Albert seemingly ceaseless pursuit of the new – those ideas, inventions, experiences embankment, London. Computer generated image. and services that enrich every aspect of our lives. from culture to cuisine, entertainment to business, we celebrate the best of today and look forward to tomorrow. Printed by Park Communications on fsC® certified paper. This document is printed on Core silk, a paper containing 100% virgin fibre sourced from well managed, responsible, fsC® certified forests. The Homes & London pulp used in this product is on your tablet bleached using an elemental chlorine free (eCf) process. Available on your iPad or Android tablet. search homes & London to download the The views expressed by latest edition. contributors are not necessarily shared by the st James Group. No part of this magazine may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form without permission. Homes & London is published on behalf of the st James Group by Totality uK Ltd. A proud member of the Berkeley Group of companies All rights reserved. Introducing BeoLab 14 – a redefinition of surround Computer generated images sound and living proof that amazing sound matters are indicative only. bang-olufsen.com Homes & London – 01 3211 BeoLab 14 Ad for Homes & London 235x280mm 01.indd 1 20/06/13 14.28 p12 p04 The future issue Contents CoNTeNTs Summer 2013 p19 04 Seed capital 52 Fast forward The St James collection Through research, global networks, number- Meet the experts whose job it is to predict 76 crunching data, and high and low-tech what we might want, need or desire, long Places to live with St James processing, the Kew royal Botanic Gardens' before the idea even enters our head.f rom 78 Merano Residences Millenium seed Bank Partnership is saving fashion to food, technology to travel, come 82 Kew Bridge West the world, one seed at a time. and gaze into the crystal ball. 86 Riverlight 12 Watch this space 59 A more social life Today, anyone who can afford the price tag st James is a company at the cutting 90 Queen Mary's Place can buy a ticket for a real-life space adventure. edge of lifestyle design – creating a host 92 Roehampton House We explore what it’s taken to make that dream of experiences to enjoy within world-class p43 a reality. places to live. We explore the rise of these 93 Langham Square so-called ‘third spaces’ and discover what 19 Smartly dressed 94 Wye Dene it takes to create the very best. The things we wear are becoming intelligent. 95 Kennet Island “Travelling into space is to enter from internet-enabled glasses that sense 62 Smart solutions 96 the greatest unknown.” what interests us, to workout clothes designed Welcome to our selection of the latest gadgets and Hurlingham Gate to improve posture. We discover how style gizmos designed to improve your everyday life. 100 Emerald Square eugene Cernan is getting smarter. 65 Sensory sensations Coming soon 23 Movers + shakers London is being revived by a new wave 101 Brewery Wharf London has always been a magnet for creators of restaurants, cinemas and olfactory events and entrepreneurs. We meet five of todays that tantalise the senses. homes & London 102 The Corniche brightest and best. uncovers the capital’s most unusual experiences. p43 104 Butlers Court 30 The diary 69 Made for me Plan your future with our pick of the most in a world driven by mass production interesting events taking place across the we explore the rise of the one-off, and how capital this summer. we as individuals are becoming the new designers and manufacturers of tomorrow. 39 Bank of tomorrow Born out of London's defunct industrial 73 All hail! framework, springs a brand new quarter few British tech companies have gathered on the river and right in the heart of the city, such a devoted following as hailo, the mobile home to some of the most cutting edge phone app that lets users virtually hail a taxi. architecture in the world. A quarter of a million passengers worldwide use the on-demand taxi service, an idea which 43 Space age style emerged over tea and toast in a small café. p52 Visions of science and tomorrow have long “it’s an unbelievable story,” co-founder russell inspired the way in which we style the places hall tells homes & London. we live. from soft flowing sci-fi curves to the precision of molecular geometry, our home styling choices will transport your home back to the future. 47 City of culture London is a grand canvas for public art. The wealth of work on show today ranges p62 from sculpture sited on historic plinths, to unique contemporary pieces commissioned p59 p23 by st James. This is our guide to what ot see now and what to look out for in the future. 02 – Homes & London Homes & London – 03 The uniquefuture issue issue SpiritSeed capital of London seed capital Protecting the world’s diverse and threatened wild plant species is the mission pledge of Kew Royal Botanic Gardens' Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP). Through research, global networks, number-crunching data, and high and low-tech processing, the MSBP is saving the world, one seed at a time. WRITER Claire Walsh – PHOTOGRAPHY Jon Stevens ILLUSTRATION David Young 04 – Homes & London Homes & London – 05 The future issue commissioned and opened in 2000 to house the Seed capital MSB’s expanding work and collection. Designed by architects Stanton Williams, the low-level construction features barrel-vaulted roofing t was British designer Thomas Heatherwick’s and acres of glazing inside and out, to both echo Seed Cathedral – the startling UK Pavilion and enable the visibility that the MSB promotes icreated for the 2010 Shanghai Expo – that, for in its operations. me, spotlighted the important work being done It’s a ‘belt and braces’ approach below by the MSBP. The Cathedral featured 250,000 ground, with the two main cold stores – seeds sourced from the Kunming Institute of the actual seed bank – being located in an Botany, in China (a member of the MSBP). underground vault, behind a heavy reinforced- The seeds were cast in 60,000, seven and half steel door. Although the door is a little dramatic, metre long acrylic rods, which protruded out and more appropriate for protecting bullion, of a small box-like building. It resembled a it is a reminder of the serious work the MSBP giant seed head, shimmering in the daylight, undertakes, safeguarding essential wild-plants and illuminated at night. The pavilion was for all our futures. visited by 7 million people, and won the expo’s On the ground floor, laboratories line gold medal. It made Heatherwick a global a public central space. Probert tells me he star and catapulted the work of the MSBP into advocates the upper level of the building public conscience. being so accessible; “the general public can I’m in Wakehurst, the National Trust estate walk straight in and see into the labs and see in West Sussex, where Kew’s Millennium Seed exhibition hall at the MsB visitor centre scientists going about their day-to-day work”. Bank (MSB) is located, and I am expecting There are around 70 technicians, graduate boiler suits, hydrochloric arms and iris scientists, and post-doctorial researchers screening. I sign in, with a regular paper and working here. Many are linguists, so as to pen, and am met by my guide Robin Probert seed Cathedral, uK Pavilion at the 2010 shanghai expo aid communication with the 120 partner – the knowledgeable and affable head of organisations, located in 50 countries. conservation and technology at the bank. As we Gone is the Empire attitude of exploitation, make our way through the building, he explains global partners now identify the seeds they the scene here is an “active operation”. The wish to collect, be it because they are rare MSBP’s humane pledge of conservation is and endangered, or incredibly useful. Seed underpinned by human involvement at every The MSB is referred to as the collections are focused on alpine, dry lands, stage of their operations. Robin Probert coastal and island ecosystems, as these are most Kew had always collected and stored seeds, 'mothership' by partner organisations. head of Conservation vulnerable to climate change. but after National Lottery investment in 1996 & Technology MsB it was able to establish the MSBP and expand MsB visitor centre seed sculpture seeds on exhibit seeds on exhibit their horizon.
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