British pubs flaunt the latest technology
It’s a Wednesday night, and northwest London’s Haverstock Arms is teeming with soccer fans. Large television screens, perched among eccentric bric-a-brac, show a north London derby match in English football’s Premier League between Tottenham Hotspur and their arch-rivals, Arsenal. As two young fans wearing oversized grey glasses stand up [...]
On a winding south London street dotted with down-at-heel convenience stores and forlorn former pubs sits the derelict Lawson housing estate; its paint is flaking, its windows boarded up, its balcony screens cracked. But if you walk through the courtyard and enter one darkened doorway in a corner, you’ll find a marvellous irruption: the brutalist bedsit has been colonized by large electric blue crystals that cover the walls, the ceiling and even the tub in the tiny bathroom.