The elegant and vast neoclassical hall of the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art has been taken over by an art installation on time and space travel by Aleksandra Domanovic the Slovenian artist who has had several international exhibitions, including at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. This is her first solo […]
The Natural History Museum has announced the winner of the design competition to redevelop its grounds in South Kensington, London as Niall McLaughlin Architects with Kim Wilkie. The aim is to create an innovative landscaped environment that matches the visual qualities of the world-famous Waterhouse building and Darwin Centre and will improve the experience for the 5 million visitors […]
News from the University of Liverpool of ARION 1 – a unique stream-lined bicycle which the university’s team of engineering students believes will become the fastest-ever human-powered vehicle. The University of Liverpool Velocipede Team is hoping to smash the 83.13 mph record set in September 2013 by TU Delft and VU Amsterdam universities by reaching a speed […]
The Museum of the Uprising in Warsaw is one of the best museums in Poland. Located in the growing financial district in the vast industrial architectural hulk of a former power station, it was opened on the 60th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising of 1944. It is an evocative and eerie museum which explains how the Polish resistance bravely fought […]
Is Google reinventing itself? Earlier this month Google bought New Mexico’s Titan Aerospace company for an undisclosed sum and this week there was news that it had filed a US patent to embed microscopic cameras into contact lenses. Titan Aerospace develops solar-powered unmanned aircraft that can fly non-stop for prolonged periods, beaming wireless signals to the ground and […]
Warsaw’s architecture has a chequered past. Much of the historic centre was destroyed and rebuilt after the second world war. Modern architecture in Eastern Europe was generally functional, economic and uninspiring. Thereafter modern buildings were of mixed quality of design, often incorporating geometrical shapes for the sake of it. The most recent buildings indicate that […]
Warsaw now has one of the most innovative museums in the world with the newly-refurbished Chopin Museum in the Ostrogski Palace in Warsaw. The new museum, curated by Ico Migliore and Mara Servetto of Migliore+Servetto Architetti Associati, allows the visitor to go back in time into the world of Chopin by use of innovative audiovisual and interactive technology […]
3D-printing, one of the greatest technologies of our era, continues to achieve amazing new developments in medical science. Recent reports show its use in heart operations in two ways. In the first, the creation of a 3D model of the heart of 14-month old, Roland Lian Cung Bawi, from Owensboro, Kentucky who was diagnosed with four congenital heart defects enabled more […]
Two complimentary exhibitions at Tate Britain, the first is “RuinLust”, the artistic portrayal of ruins from the time that they became picturesque in the 18th century. The second is Phyllida Barlow’s massive installation which fills the whole of the classical Duveen galleries. It is a measure of how disappointing the exhibition is that the installation […]
After the Second World War, prefabricated houses or “prefabs” were built across Britain to house the returning soldiers and those who had lost their homes in the German bombing. As a child of the 1950′s, I grew up in one which had a fantastic plot of land in which my father used to grow vegetables. […]
"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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