A decommissioned black cab and curb-side art gallery are among the mini parks designed by the London-based architects and designers as part of this year's London Festival of Architecture.
The three miniature landscaped spaces, designed by architecture studios Fatkin and PARTI and artist Patrick McEvoy, are dotted across the capital's historic financial district.
The city parklets were created to address important questions about the boundaries between the individual and public realm within the city, which reflects this year's London Festival of Architecture (LFA) theme ? boundaries.
Fatkin has created a place for sitting, relaxing and playing within a decommissioned cab
London-based architecture practice Fatkin has transformed a decommissioned black cab into a playful public space for seating and relaxing. Named The London Cablet, the project aims to address show how vehicles could be recycled to benefit the public spaces of cities as we are approaching the end of the fossil-fuel era.
Pollution-absorbing plants were planted around the cab to provide a habitat for insects and adding extra greenery to the street.
The Pavement Gallery, by Patrick McEvoy, allows passers-by to draw
Artist Patrick McEvoy has transformed an unused space in St Martins le Grand into an open-air art gallery, which encourages passers-by to draw on pavement stones that are placed on a series of timber easels.
The york slabs on the easels are commonly used by pavement artists throughout the city, with ...