My new home

Some great photos of our new stunning offices in the Bahrain Financial Harbour. We are very lucky to move into the H3Sixty space for our first office. It will be almost two months now since we moved in and it has been such a great experience so far. I love having breakfasts in the kitchen, and using all our conference spaces for our meetings. I am really looking forward to introduce the new H3sixty project which will be held in our office lounge, along with a new entrepreneurship program for budding businessmen. Watch this space folks!

The conference room, chillout areas

The reception area and golf putt

The lounge area

The kitchen

Neverland-ish

I was one of the crazy Disney fans that bought my ticket to the much anticiapte Peter Pan show in Hyde Park. Call me loonie but I actually thought it would be as good as the Lion King Production on the Strand which I saw more than once (cough! 5 times). Boy was I mistaken. The show sucked. It sucked so badly it made my high school production of it seem like a big hit.

So it came as an exciting surprise to me when I read from Time Out magazine there was a tree house jungle project going on in Regent's Park. I headed out there dragging with me a brood of hot and bothered buddies who after getting lost for an hour (the tree house project was not marked on any map in the park) to finally walk into a beautiful entrancing romantic temporary architectural project. Yes people. I was very excited. We went there not knowing what to expect but when found it was well worth the hunt. This temporary project was so un-Londonish, no rules, no health and safety, no 24 watch guards. The temporary tree houses were built with crooked stairs, branches for shelters, and donated furniture for seating all being hammered and clammed on the spot by voluntary builders who have travelled from all across the UK to help out with the project. All the structures were built around strong tree trunks, with spaces for reading ,drawing, playing the piano, painting, sleeping, and playing. It was the perfect space for children and parents alike. There was a hippie, Gypsy mood to the space that gave it an electric feel. Voluntary builders were making tables and chairs and even conducting workshops. Recycled material was used for draping, nets were being made into hammocks, signs were painted and pinned on trees. It really was an open space for activity and personality. Drawings were hung from leaves, poems were scripted everywhere, and children were making things and falling off steps. It was very fun and a magical space for everyone who came to visit. I finally got my Neverland experience.

Photographers Gallery Move

I had to find out the hard way that The Photographer's Gallery has moved quarters from the teeny space they had at Piccadilly Circus to a huge NY looking block behind what-used-to-be Borders at Oxford Circus. I had to take the long humid tube trip to their old branch to find out they had moved, but it was well worth visiting at the end. The new space is far bigger with a glorious shop and cafe on the 2nd floor. Call me crazy but I went to the Gallery to check out the much fussed about When You're a Boy Exhibition: Men's Fashion Styled By Simon Foxton but found myself more intrigued by 1- the cool cameras you can buy at the shop 2- Andre Kertesz's collection of photographs titled Reading.

Being a big reader and obsessed notebook collector myself I could relate to the excitement the photographs contained of people cracking books, reading the first lines on the pages and getting lost into the world. Over the course of his career Hungarian born Kertesz captured readers from different locations in the act of reading. I wasn't able to take photos of the exhibit but I will def post about it soon. Until then I reveal to you the new gallery space, and the work of Simon Foxton.

Section of the gallery painted unto the wall

Bookshop for fascinated photographers

Simon's sketchbooks