Hamburg Design Review
What is this? Since the beginning I have been asked this question countless times. From family members peering over my shoulder to look at my earliest notebook scribblings, to investors, wary of sinking their cash into a project that is - at least in appearance - so ambiguous. But The Hamburg Design Review is not ambiguous. We have a direction. I come from a family of reviewers and writers. People who, like those who chase after storms, have spent their lives leaping into 4x4 vehicles and driving towards the horizon of the mind. Chasers of ideals and ideas, those who seek to fuse styles and bridge conceptual gaps. Ultimately, to find forms of public expression that are more innovative, and more inviting.The HDR is a forum for such expression, be it serious, or silly, or written, or visual, perhaps aural. Who knows and who could even say? Perhaps, if we are lucky, we will have all of these given to us, in one heady shot of the contemporary.So what is this? Now I ask you.I ask you to pick up the salt shaker and that little wedge of lime.Let us try this shot together.The Editor x.
Hamburg Design Review
Shadplex Part One: The Viewing
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Hamburg Design Review
Welcome to Shadplex, London's newest community-based 'community' living project. Come and bask in the reflected glow of fresh windows and chrome-detailed room-for-one balconies in this break clause-free and frozen interest rate-rich paradise. This is a place where agents of the estate can be themselves, clad in slimfit, viewing properties with abandon, ordering non-romano-style pizzas... even raising families in this holy image. But things aren't always what they seem. High in these semi-towers, these... these units, machinations are at play. Afoot, even. For young father Joshua Oglesby, the extent to which things are afoot is about to become all too real. So... what do you think? Spacious, right?