Kevan Davis

Kevan Davis

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"I'd rather walk if it makes my journey quicker."

London, England · Superuser icon?Superuser Level 6
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The Stones of Croydon
20 places updated August 17, 2018
Twenty rocks installed in 2015, one in each of Croydon's original 1964 wards, to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of Croydon becoming a London borough.
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Paolozzi in London
7 places updated June 17, 2017
Public art by Eduardo Paolozzi around the city.
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Richard Wilson sculptures
7 places updated October 6, 2014
A list of permanent installations in the UK, in chronological order.
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Ancient woodland in London
35 places updated August 25, 2018
Defined as any woodland that's existed continuously in a London borough since 1600. List probably incomplete.
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London sundials
8 places updated June 17, 2014
Not counting small church sundials, just the large and strange ones.
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The Seven Noses of Soho
8 places updated January 5, 2016
As part of an unpublicised 1997 protest against the installation of CCTV cameras in London, artist Rick Buckley attached around 35 models of his own nose to various buildings. A few still survive.
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    "An arbitrary corner of the larger QEH lobby. Seems to be a roughly 70/20/10 chance of empty, peaceful silence, a milling pre-show audience or deafening live jazz."
    Kevan DavisKevan Davis · January 13, 2019
    Concrete Café
    Café
    · London, United Kingdom
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    "The tunnel was created in 1855 to allow horsedrawn carriages to reach the Park Estate from Derby Road. Designed to have a 1:14 gradient but dug with a 1:12, it proved too steep for its purpose."
    Kevan DavisKevan Davis · July 3, 2018
    The Park Tunnel (Tunnel Road Entrance)
    Cave
    · Nottingham, United Kingdom
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    "All the coffee and furniture feels a bit generic and temporary, but there are some decent Japanese pastries, and it's easily the quietest place for a coffee on the South Bank."
    Kevan DavisKevan Davis · May 11, 2018
    Tokyo Bakery
    Bakery
    · London, United Kingdom
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    "Installed in 1980, and thought by the Museum of London to have been recovered from a scrapyard in the 1920s, with a head that doesn't match its body."
    Kevan DavisKevan Davis · March 29, 2018
    Statue of Emperor Trajan
    Outdoor Sculpture
    · Poplar, United Kingdom
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    "Cafe isn't up to much, and the dot-matrix wooden blocks on the side of the building were good until some kid had the unstoppably replicating idea to write on them in pen."
    Kevan DavisKevan Davis · February 26, 2018
    The Podium Bar & Kitchen
    Restaurant
    · Stratford, United Kingdom
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    "The spiderwebs across the coloured-LED lamps in the tunnel are a great piece of tiny arachnid architecture."
    Kevan DavisKevan Davis · December 6, 2017
    Clink Street
    Road
    · London, United Kingdom