While, in Glasgow, the Govanhill Baths continues its regeneration project, Goldsmith’s College in London has announced the winners of its design competition to transform the Victorian Laurie Grove Baths into a public art gallery with exhibitions, projects and residencies by leading artists and curators from around the world. The winning design from Assemble, a London-based […]
Take care as you travel on the London underground. While you are watching the other passengers taking “selfies”, you might find yourself captured by Julie Leonard on her iPhone and transformed into a colourful artwork. Julie is a London-based artist who has been inspired by the technology used by the likes of David Hockney to […]
This summer there are a number of fine exhibitions across Scotland. The National Museum of Scotland has an exhibition of art from the Ming Dynasty – a period of three hundred years (1368-1644) marked by social, cultural and economic transformation and an astonishing flourishing of the arts, and is considered to be one of the […]
How do you camouflage a warship? The traditional technique of blending natural colours and textures is difficult given the number of different backgrounds warships will be seen against. Norman Wilkinson, a marine painter, invented a different solution in the first world war – effectively doing the opposite and making the camouflage stand out in a […]
While the attention is focused on the sporting events and regeneration of the east end of Glasgow with the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in Govanhill in the south side of Glasgow another regeneration project is underway, this time the rebirth of a much-loved local and historic landmark, the Govanhill Baths. The Baths were opened 100 years […]
Glasgow has ensured that the Commonwealth Games are an exemplar of long term sustainability – 70% of the 2014 Commonwealth Games venues were already existing, including Celtic Park which saw the spectacular Opening Ceremony tonight, Ibrox Football Stadium, Hampden Park, and the Scottish Exhibition Centre complex in Glasgow, the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh and […]
The “Cheesegrater”, officially called the Leadenhall Building, completed this week ready for its tenants and restauranteurs to move into the fit-out stage. One of the highest quality of recent buildings in the City of London, with a high quality of materials and detailing that you would expect from Richard Rogers of Rogers Stirk Harbour […]
Alexander Calder’s colourful vibrant work has been on display in several cities over the summer. In London and New York, the Gargosian Gallery had a show of Calder’s gouache paintings, which provided a contrast to the kinetic and mobile sculptures for which he is best known and which are currently on display in a major […]
Martin Craig Martin is well known for his paintings and prints which use lines, colours, letters and shapes in a very graphic way. Even his own website’s front page is covered with these two-dimensional images. So what happens when this work becomes sculpture? Twelve brightly-coloured sculptures by Martin Craig Martin appeared in the grounds of […]
Buildings are created, they flourish and then they decay. There is always something poetic about the slow decay of buildings, left deserted as shadows of what was once there, with echos of the voices of former occupants filtering through the decay. Rebecca Lichfield took on the bureaucracy and geographical scale of the former Soviet Union […]
"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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