London Design Biennale 2021; Kingston Cycle Hub – reviews

Somerset House, London; Kingston upon Thames
The lofty words on sustainability from designers from around the world in London are given more concrete form further up the ThamesFirst, let me defend a dead white man. The 18th-century architect William Chambers was not, as the designer Es Devlin suggests, a tree-hater. He designed Kew Gardens, wrote treatises on gardening and said that “gardeners, like poets, should give a loose to their imagination and even fly beyond the bounds of truth&rdq