{"id":5814,"date":"2012-01-31T10:45:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T10:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5814"},"modified":"2012-01-30T23:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T23:02:15","slug":"southbank-at-dusk-royal-festival-hall-hayward-gallery-and-qe-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/southbank-at-dusk-royal-festival-hall-hayward-gallery-and-qe-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Southbank at dusk: Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery and QE Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/southbank-festival-hall-01.jpg\" alt=\"Southbank at dusk: Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery and QE Hall\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seen on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at dusk is this curious boat shaped hotel room designed by David Kohn Architects and Turner Prize-nominated artist Fiona Banner.<\/p>\n<p>Up to two people at a time can spend a night in the room, which is billed\u00a0as &#8220;a place to reflect on the nature of transience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/southbank-festival-hall-02.jpg\" alt=\"Southbank at dusk: Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery and QE Hall\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;love it or hate it&#8217; brutalist rough\u00a0concrete lines of the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/southbank-festival-hall-03.jpg\" alt=\"Southbank at dusk: Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery and QE Hall\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Hayward Gallery &#8211; a major London art space &#8211; was built by UK construction\u00a0company\u00a0Higgs and Hill and opened on 9 July 1968.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/southbank-festival-hall-04.jpg\" alt=\"Southbank at dusk: Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery and QE Hall\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Food market outside the Royal Festival Hall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/southbank-festival-hall-05.jpg\" alt=\"Southbank at dusk: Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery and QE Hall\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Royal Festival Hall with the London Eye in the distance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/southbank-festival-hall-06.jpg\" alt=\"Southbank at dusk: Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery and QE Hall\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/southbank-festival-hall-07.jpg\" alt=\"Southbank at dusk: Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery and QE Hall\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Books for sale under Waterloo Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>[All pics were taken in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirefresh.com\/panasonic-lumix-lx5-compact-camera-full-review-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lumix LX5 <\/a>compact camera]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall at dusk is this curious boat shaped hotel room designed by David Kohn Architects and Turner Prize-nominated artist Fiona Banner. 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