Everything Counts RCA exhibition
The buses were all drawn from the Arriva Heritage Fleet: gold bus RM6 (VLT 6), along with red buses RML901 (WLT 901), RM1124 (124 CLT) & RM2217 (CUV 217C). Viewing platforms were installed outside the buses. [1][2]Each one becomes a temporary gallery, with Architecture students and their colleagues from other disciplines driving forward some of their latest ideas for London in four very distinct ways. These mini-exhibitions chart new routes, pitching a revitalised spirit in design under specific themes. Bus Route 1 explores the contradictions in London as a global and a local city, looking at how these might be exploited in architecture. Route 2 has ‘added value’ as its destination; showing how the city might be re planned to create all kinds of new opportunities for raising the bar commercially as well as architecturally. Route 3 asks what effect new forms of social contract might accompany a rapidly evolving multi-everything society, and how might these be represented through new kinds of civic buildings. And Route 4 really is the Final Destination - hurtling towards a future that encompasses catastrophe. How will design in the South East anticipate flooding, a possible nuclear leak or a disintegrating society? And will any of these scenarios have any resonance for designing tomorrow?
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Exhibition Road
(RM2217 nearest the camera) -
RM1124 in Exhibition Road
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RM1124 in Exhibition Road
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RM2217 in Exhibition Road
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(left to right): RM2217, RM1124, RM6 & RML901
(having been moved to outside the Royal Albert Hall, 45 mins after the close of exhibition)