Reflections on architecture

With so many cheap flights around, driving to Venice may seem like a strange choice. It was however well considered. Transportation costs were astronomical, we were solely responsible for the safe delivery of our gallery and it offered the choice to visit various locations on the way. It was also the low carbon option as opposed to flying and your baggage allowance was huge!

Van fully loaded and ready to go! Leith, Edinburgh

Stop 1: Ferry terminal at Newcastle for overnight sailing to Amsterdam into Germany and onto...

Stop 2: Cologne and Kolumba Museum by Zumthor

Then through Germany & France with a brief customs stop at the Swiss border, we headed for Basel to..

Stop 4: where our fantastic hosts for the night, Bjarki and Ulrike put us up in their amazing 3m wide home in central Basel. Bjarki is an architect in Basel and owns

Zophoniasson & Partner Architekten

Stop 5: From there, a quick trip back across the border to Germany and a visit Vitrahaus by Hertzog & de Meuron.

Then back again into Switzerland and into the Alps, through the 17km tunnel at Gotthard pass and into Italy where we stopped for re-fuelling (Stop 6).

Stop 7: After negotiating some rather windy roads we took a break in Menaggio on the beautiful Lake Como.

After this, we headed south then east, bypassing Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona & Vicenza and finally arrived at our destination - Stop 8: VENEZIA. Then the next morning the Transient Gallery was unloaded onto boat and transported to our studio hub with the rest of the team at Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, Via Garibaldi, Venice.

Images by Murdo McDermid