Dear The Corner Room team, Thank you very much for your wonderful hospitality on the celebrations of my mother’s 69th birthday yesterday afternoon. She had a fantastic day and you were an integral part of it. My family had a wonderful time , and as ever, the food and wine were delicious and the service fantastic. We  look forward to returning to your restaurant sometime soon.

See on Scoop.it – on design Londoners were surprised with a stunning beam of light towering above the city on Monday’s First World War centenary atelier EURA Scrapbook‘s insight: The past two weeks have been, to the world as a whole and the UK in particular, a time to remember those who took part in the war that changed the way the world fought for ever. For someone as against conflict as I am, the idea of celebrating a bloody occurrence in the first place springs to mind conflicting feelings which at 40 I am not able to fully articulate. And , as an architect, the idea of celebrating a bloody occurrence through a permanent sculpture even more so.

See on Scoop.it – on design This year’s BP Portrait Award exhibition presents a compelling sense of narrative, says Florence Waters atelier EURA Scrapbook‘s insight: Visiting the BP Portrait award last Saturday felt , as it generally does, like taking a journey though time. A journey that took me back to my student years when , freshly arrived to the UK, I decided to submit and entry titled “Mad cow”. The entry, a self portrait, featured a mug (with the words on) with the tired eyes of an architectural student gazing back at the viewer. It was a portrait that I still like because of its honesty, but in truth rather amateurish. I must clear and confess that I never imagined being in with a chance to win any of the awards. All I wanted was the chance to be featured at the exhibition. More than ten years on, after seeing the level of entries rocket year after year, I could not imagine having the same audacity now. There would be a lot to discuss …