benastrada's photos

Fence and entrance gate to the Old Royal Naval college in Greenwich. Adorning the gate is a 'merman' (I only discovered today that the french for it is 'triton', after the Greek god of the sea, son of Amphitrite and Poseidon). The buildings are home today to the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the UK's only conservatoire of music and contemporary dance... If you visit in the summer, and sit outside the open windows, you'll be treated to a very postmodern soundscape: students practising their opera vocals, along some other students tuning their wind instruments, others practising their piano scales and more... really worth it, it all merges into a really fascinating insight into what it takes to practice music, voice work etc.

East India Dock Basin is the largest remaining part of the early 19th century East India Docks complex. I am not sure whether the water levels numbers (I assume that is what they are) are in feet... HWW

The Faraday Effect, described as 'the smallest of London's museums' created by artists Ana Ospina and Cara Flowers and Fourth Wall Creations, They also describe it as an 'immersive installation' which recreates Faraday's workshop using sound recordings, explanatory notes and historic documents.

From the Trinity Buoy Wharf website: 'The original Container City™ project, Container City 1 was completed in 2001. The building was initially three-storeys high, providing 12 work studios across 446m2. A fourth floor was added in 2003 to accommodate three more live/work apartments.'

Millenium Dome in the background...

Trinity Buoy Wharf, dolphin 'sculpture' and various other rusty steampunk style artifacts, and 'container city' in the background.

Trinitty Buoy Wharf - sculpture

One of many steampunk contraptions sprinkled around Trinity Buoy Wharf. This one has 'Aqua Gill' inscribed at the front... not sure if that is the name of the piece...

by English abstract sculptor Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 1924 – 23 October 2013) whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects.