‘The Goldfinger Project’ explores the social utopian ideology and reality of the Brutalist architectural aesthetic, documenting both fictional and factual narratives from one of Brutalism’s key exponents and a leading figure of the Modern movement - Erno Goldfinger. Goldfinger’s architectural legacies, key moments from his life and the architectural world are presented by Arni Haraldsson in the form of photography, film footage, historical documentation, popular cultural memorabilia, sound and resourced information. Featuring material from such diverse sources as BBC news reels of the Ronan Point tower collapse, the Barbican, Trellick Tower, t-shirts, popular music songs, advertising campaigns, interviews with residents and James Bond movies. ‘The Goldfinger Project’ is Arni Haraldsson’s latest work in his investigation into the architectural language of the High Modernist era. This ongoing project of photographing and collecting material as a means to explore architecture and its cultural legacy has taken him around the globe from Rix Reinecke’s landmark Ocean Towers in Vancouver, Libera’s isolated Villa Malaparte on Capri to Le Corbusier’s Modernist city vision of Chandigarh in India. Arni Haraldsson is a Vancouver-based artist and an Associate Professor of Photography at Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver. His practice documents the fading relics of High Modernist architecture …

A day of Free expert advice run by Handy Croissant ,High Wycombe’s leading business networking group . Get business advice you can trust - completely free ! Hear Steve Hayes ,founder of loans.co.uk give his tips fro success from 1500 hrs . Learn about Olympic Business Opportunities from Business Link’s Julie Murdoch at 1600 hrs. This exciting exhibition is being opend by local MP Paul Goodman at 1400 hrs. Sponsors exhibiting on the day include Business Link, Federation of Small Businesses,London Wasps ,Barclays Bank and Holiday INN. So if you are an existing business in the High Wycombe or Thames Valley M40 corridor or just starting up - come along and meet your local business experts for free advice! Pre-register by e-mail on handycroissant@makeourday.co.uk and go into a free draw for a case of excellent quality French single-estate wines .Or just turn up - it’s free admission. For membership details of Handy Croissant ,see our web-site www.handycroissant.com See you there at High Wycombe’s premier business to business exhibition.

A showcase of the best new creative talent. Over 100 college and university courses teaching design, advertising, digital media, visual communications and related crafts fields exhibit the work of their best graduates.

March 15th might ring a bell with some of you as it’s The grand re-opening of The newly redeveloped The Bluecoat. And although we have it on very good authority that it’s going to be fabulous that’s not what we’ll be doing, well not until we have found out what place a Scouse Buddhist monk has in Paradise! Intrigued? Through Paradise Stories, Kai-Oi Jay Yung investigates mankind’s modern day pursuit of happiness and utopia. The exhibition is a philosophical exploration into paradise and the everyday struggle. A huge duck with a foxes head, an interactive wigwam-igloo, and a water feature are a of the few pieces that make up the exhibition, which challenges the idea of paradise in Liverpool and how regeneration, development and architecture affect us and our daily lives. Jay made an open call to artists from around the world to forward their ideas on paradise. Following this request the work of artists Chong Boon Pok, Didi Dunphy, Chris Eckersley, Tim Maslen & Jennifer Mehra, Laurel Kurtz & Steven Beatty, Faye Peacock, Sari Lievonen, and Kasper Wimberley have been included in the Paradise Stories exhibition. With this years opening the Paradise Project (Liverpool One), this exhibition’s timing is …