Cities are about people; cities evolve and develop; they are ever-changing as are the people within them. Cities leave behind memories of what they have been and what they might have been. Showing at the Zabludowicz Collection in north London is an exhibition of the work of nine artists from two collections, shown in two […]
London based designer, art director and artist Yoni Alter turns grey and glass buildings of London and New York into a graphical kaleidoscope of bright abstract blocks of colour. A new exhibition showing his London work opens at the Kemistry Gallery in London at the end of the work and will include four series with […]
The young photographer Tom Leighton creates cities that on first glance seem to be symmetrical images of places we recognise but on closer inspection have a great deal of subtle differences within them. He pulls apart iconic and much-loved elements of cities and re-assembles them into places that could not exist, or could they, like […]
Randy Scott Slavin creates stunning and imaginative 360 degree cityscapes and landscapes integrating several hundred different images into one large scale panoramic landscape. Images range from across the United States including Big Sur to the New York City skyline. Dramatic, with clouds and skies reminiscent of Turner or perhaps the 19th century painter John Martin, […]
The first of a series of artists who work with the architecture of cities making them into fantastic imaginative structures, Spanish photographer Victor Enrich plays games with his own architectural photography to create fantastical structures, like a tower block that peels apart as though being unzipped. He started with work in Tel Aviv, one of […]
Currently under construction by Balfour Beatty Construction is a £81 million new undergraduate Engineering Building for The University of Sheffield. The design was initiated by members of Twelve Architects when they worked for a previous firm and Twelve Architects have continued with the commission. This is a major investment by the University in the field […]
The Serpentine Gallery pavilion is one of the highlights of the artistic summer in London. It allows the selected architect to create a small jewel in the landscape of Kensington Gardens. The Gallery has announced the designer of this year’s pavilion as Smiljan Radic from Santiago, who will create what appears to be a flying […]
The King’s College London Mathematics School is a state-funded school for students aged 16-19 with a particular aptitude for mathematics. Students will study A-level maths, further maths and physics as part of a curriculum which will also include philosophy, economics, chemistry, biology, and the humanities. The school is taking applications for its opening academic year […]
The power of 3D printing to transform lives has been reported this week with the case of Stephen Power, a young man who suffered terrible facial injuries in a motorcycle crash in 2012. Doctors at the Centre for Applied Reconstructive Technologies in Surgery (Cartis) at the Morriston Hospital in Swansea, Wales, broke his cheekbone in […]
Imperial College London opened its new Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine in 2012 at its Hammersmith Campus in West London. This new £66 million six-storey facility will expand and accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into healthcare practice “from bench to beside”. It combines both research space for up to 450 scientists with clinical […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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