Everything Counts RCA exhibition

English: Everything Counts was an exhibition held in London on 21 June 2008, using four Routemaster buses parked in Exhibition Road in South Kensington. It was part of the month long London Festival of Architecture. The installation showcased the work of students from the Royal College of Art, with each bus given a different theme. According to the LFA:

Each one becomes a temporary gallery, with Architecture students and their colleagues from other disciplines driving forward some of their latest ideas for London in four very distinct ways. These mini-exhibitions chart new routes, pitching a revitalised spirit in design under specific themes. Bus Route 1 explores the contradictions in London as a global and a local city, looking at how these might be exploited in architecture. Route 2 has ‘added value’ as its destination; showing how the city might be re planned to create all kinds of new opportunities for raising the bar commercially as well as architecturally. Route 3 asks what effect new forms of social contract might accompany a rapidly evolving multi-everything society, and how might these be represented through new kinds of civic buildings. And Route 4 really is the Final Destination - hurtling towards a future that encompasses catastrophe. How will design in the South East anticipate flooding, a possible nuclear leak or a disintegrating society? And will any of these scenarios have any resonance for designing tomorrow?

The buses were all drawn from the Arriva Heritage Fleet: gold bus RM6 (VLT 6), along with red buses RML901 (WLT 901), RM1124 (124 CLT) & RM2217 (CUV 217C). Viewing platforms were installed outside the buses. [1][2]

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  Exhibition Road
  (RM2217 nearest the camera)
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  RM1124 in Exhibition Road
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  RM1124 in Exhibition Road
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  RM2217 in Exhibition Road
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  (left to right): RM2217, RM1124, RM6 & RML901
  (having been moved to outside the Royal Albert Hall, 45 mins after the close of exhibition)