The devastating fire that destroyed much of the west wing of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art, has been well-reported. Well done to the fire services and the staff of the School who had the difficult task of dealing with the fire and trying to minimise the impact on this historic building […]
Peter Steinhauer is a Singapore-based photographer who has been working across Asia since 1993. His finely-crafted photography focuses on the human, architectural and natural landscapes. DesignBoom has published a set of his latest urban architectural photographs, not of finished buildings but of the earlier stage when, like butterflies or moths, buildings are cocooned, in this […]
COBRA (or CoBrA) was an avant-garde art movement active for a few brief years from 1948 to 1951. The name was derived from the members’ home cities Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. The group was formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret in 1948 in Paris, the members having a […]
William Glackens is not well-known outside the United States of America, although during his lifetime he was known as “America’s Renoir” and perhaps he should be better known. The Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale has a major collection of his works donated by his son and is currently showing what is described as “the […]
To 21st century eyes, it is strange to think that it is only 50 years ago that the United States passed its two landmark bills, the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to ensure that, as had been written in the Constitution, all Americans – regardless of colour – […]
Located in the first floor galleries of the Pérez Art Museum Miami is Mark Dion’s South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit. Art combines with sustainability to focus on the human interaction or interference with the Everglades and the South Florida ecosystem by interweaving art, science, ecology, history, and archeology to tell the story of different attitudes over the […]
The current exhibition on contemporary art from Caribbean countries has received great reviews. The Cuban Art News has an interview with Elvis Fuentes, coordinating curator of d in New York before coming to Miami in which Elvis talked about the ideas behind the exhibition and the importance of Cuba within the exhibition, including both artists […]
The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the new contemporary art museum located in the developing Museum Park in Miami opened last year and (at last) provides Miami with an international quality museum setting for its own collection of contemporary art, for international art projects and galleries in which to house international loan exhibitions, such as […]
Zaha Hadid’s first building in Hong Kong, recently completed, is the Jockey Club Innovation Tower for Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The 76 metre high building is located on the University’s campus close to Hung Hom station in Kowloon and povides 12,000 sq m net space for about 1,800 staff and students. Zaha Hadid won the […]
Thomas Heatherwick has released his proposals for the new Al Fayah Park is Abu Dhabi. His endless talents are now taking landscaping into new worlds, first with the Garden Bridge over the River Thames in London and now with this proposal for a new park in Abu Dhabi of which he says: “It’s not a […]
"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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