Pea Soup House is a new pop up installation in the lobby of the Royal Institute of British Architects serving colour-coded soup that changes daily according to air pollution levels. In order to raise awareness of the problem that London suffers astronomically from, the colour-coded menu is free, with its soup matching the government’s Daily Air Quality Index (DAQI). “People might come to Pea Soup House not knowing much at all about air quality, or just say ‘free soup, brilliant’ – but that for us is a way into a wider discussion,” says architect Chris Allen.
A study by King’s College London last year found that nearly 9,500 people in the capital die early annually because of air pollution, and earlier this year it took parts of London just one week to breach annual limits. So, everyone, soup spoons at the ready and let’s get fighting pollution one slurp at a time!
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