'A Room for London', by David Kohn and Fiona Banner, is a riverboat installation designed to be occupied as a hotel room from July  

关于大卫·科恩(DavidKohn)和菲奥娜·班纳(FionaBanner)的“伦敦之室”，我们能说的最糟糕的事情是，很少有人能够体验到。这两人与阿兰·德·波顿(Alain De Botton)的“生活建筑”(Living Architecture)和“艺术天使”(Artangeler)合作，在南岸中心(Southbank Centre)的重要协助下，采取了一艘被困在泰晤士河畔、泰晤士河畔的伊丽莎白女王大厅(突然看到一艘低垂的、顶着重物的小游船，这使伦敦有能力使人联想到意想不到的事情。但这不是静态雕塑。你会看到的第一个生命迹象是风力涡轮机在桅杆上疯狂地旋转。不过，仔细看，你可能会注意到里面有一些运动。从七月起，每晚有两位客人在这个奇怪的另一个世界卧床，高高地挂在河上。难怪“伦敦之屋”(A Room For London)自1月份酒会开幕后不久就被预订得很满：除了所有的模特儿、清脆的白床单和城里最好的风景外，它还提供了精心策划的物品和艺术品，为你的短暂而静止的旅程增添了活力。通道是通过一条黑暗的走廊进入QEH下面的混凝土裂缝中。爬上安装的嘎吱作响的电梯，尤其是为这一场合而设的电梯，穿过被风吹过的屋顶，你就到达了首都最高级的前门。进去，科恩的设计信封和茧你。室内到处都是参考资料，尤其是约翰·索恩爵士的作品，他对精心制作的木材墙壁和配件采用了丰富的多色风格。在小厨房和就餐区的上方是一座小的“桥”，一条书皮林立的草原，通往“船头”上的阳台。这间屋子的顶部是一个小小的乌鸦窝，夹在金字塔钢桅杆的框架内(它的比例是从斯皮塔尔菲尔德的尼古拉斯·霍克莫尔基督教会借来的)。艺术家们灵感的主要来源是约瑟夫·康拉德的生活和工作，以及他的作品中涌现出来的一切；这艘船本身名叫罗伊·德·贝尔热斯(Roi Des Belges)，源于1890年他在刚果的船长游艇，那次航行激发了“黑暗之心”(Central Of Darkness)。气氛唤起了黑暗的殖民主义世界，所有的权力不平衡、剥削和恐怖都意味着这一点。刚果的地图与泰晤士河的地图并置；指南提供了一扇通往首都地狱的窗户，却被遗忘了。

The duo's collaboration with Alain de Botton's Living Architecture and Artangel, with the vital assistance of the Southbank Centre, takes the form of a colonial riverboat stranded atop the concrete, Thames-side Queen Elizabeth Hall and has a mysterious ghostly presence

The sudden sight of a stubby-bowed, top-heavy little tramp steamer indulges London's ability to conjure up the unexpected  

'A Room for London' has been booked solid since shortly after its opening reception in January: as well as all mod cons, crisp white sheets and the best views in town, it offers a carefully curated scattering of objects and artworks, helping to enliven your short, static voyage

Step inside and Kohn's design envelops and cocoons you. The interior abounds with references, most especially to the work of Sir John Soane, who lends his richly polychromatic approach to the finely crafted timber walls and fittings

Above the small kitchen (pictured here) and dining area is a small 'bridge', a book-lined eyrie with access to a balcony on the 'prow'. This room is topped with a tiny crow's nest, tucked within the framework of the pyramidal steel mast (its proportions borrowed from Nicholas Hawksmoor's Christ Church in Spitalfields)

The artists' prime source of inspiration was the life and work of Joseph Conrad and all that sprang forth from his opus; the boat itself is named Roi des Belges, after the riverboat he captained down the Congo in 1890, the voyage that inspired Heart of Darkness

Banner and Kohn are essentially asking their guests to consider their surroundings. With London spread out before them in all its dynamic, crane-spiked glory, all that wealth garnered from centuries of trade and the spoils of the Empire, overnighters can lie back and think not just of England but of the many, perhaps disreputable ways the country found glory

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