The first START art fair supported by Prudential and held at the Saatchi Gallery in London was, by all accounts, a great success with strong sales and a good attendance – the preview day saw 2,200 VIP guests (so many that the show ran out of VIP catalogues) with total visitors over the 5 days […]
The room is quiet, like a shrine. A small man ahead of you is praying. As you move forward into the room, you realise that the man is Adolf Hitler – is he praying for redemption for his sins, or for the courage to continue with his work?? In another room is a coffin; as […]
Passenges often enjoy well-designed buildings at many railway and bus termini, but why does it have to stop there? Why do many local commuter railway stations and bus stops provide basic engineering solutions that appear to have been designed more to be vandal-proof and to house advertising than give a pleasant experience that makes up […]
Banksy – where are you? Brazil’s street artists have created their own art programme, painting walls of buildings and hoardings with graffiti art, a colourful and often controversial part of artistic life in South America. While many are celebratory and support Brazil’s national team, past and present, some are more political highlighting the poverty and […]
The 12 venues that have been constructed or renovated for the World Cup have been seen around the world, but how many people have looked at the architecture which provides the backcloth to the sport? Brazilian photographer Leonardo Finotti has carried out a project to record the architecture and social impact of stadia for the […]
André Chiote, a Portuguese architect well-known for his simple geometric illustrations of iconic buildings, has created a special set of illustrations to celebrate the stadium architecture for the World Cup in Brazil. Chiote compares the architecture of these stadiums, which are seen all over the world, to cathedrals – “the new architectural objects are landmarks […]
Pinta arrived in London this weekend, the major art event showcasing the best in contemporary and modern art from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, with galleries from a number of countries. This must be one of the last shows to be held in Earl’s Court before it is demolished, so there is a slight sadness […]
One of the surprises at Pinta, the Latin American art fair held this weekend at Olympia was a display of photographs by the British composer Michael Nyman who now lives in Mexico City. Nyman started by taking video shots of unusual or of interested scenes as he saw them as he travelled he world. Among […]
The 13th Wellcome Image Awards were announced earlier this year and recognise the photographers who have created the most beautiful and technically-excellent images recently acquired by Wellcome Images. This includes one image from the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose public galleries are near Kendall Square. The winning […]
Continuing the theme of photography of crumbling derelict buildings or structures (see the previous entry on Detroit), Matt Emmett who calls himself a “Forgotten Heritage Photographer” has been shortlisted for this year’s Eisa Maestro photographic competition for his photographs of neglected, spooky, empty decaying buildings and industrial sites which can be seen on his website. […]
"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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