San Francisco is not noted as a city for its art deco architecture, though many consider the Golden Gate Bridge with its moderne detailing to be one of the high points of the style. Designed by Irving Morrow, architect, and Joseph Strauss, chief engineer, the dramatic bridge opened in 1927 and was the longest clear […]
London’s leading place in the international contemporary art world was strengthened last year by the opening of two new galleries – S2 by Sotheby’s In George Street, which recently held the Banksy retrospective exhibition, and Sadie Coles HQ in Kingly Street, Soho. Opening last September, Sadie Cole HQ’s new gallery supplements the existing two London […]
Modern Art Oxford provides a foil to the more traditional and historic collections in this university city. It shows modern and contemporary art, often of international quality, in the former square room and stores of Hanley’s City Brewery which was originally built in 1892 and now provides a number of different semi-industrial spaces that enables […]
Contractor City Axis has successfully completed the refurbishment of the former Lambeth Baths in Lambeth Walk in readiness for the first cohort of 60 students at King’s College London Mathematics School to arrive next Tuesday. The School is planning to reach its full complement of 120 students in September 2015. The Lambeth Baths were opened […]
One of the fascinating inventions on show in the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco is the SOCCKET Ball, the invention of four undergraduate students and a graduate student at Harvard University around 2009. The idea is very simple. Children all around the world enjoy playing football; the kinetic movement can be used to create the […]
“Design shapes the world. From the buildings we live and work in to the machines that propel us forward to the products that enrich our lives, we live in a designed world.” (Autodesk) The Autodesk Gallery near to the Ferry Building in San Francisco houses a free exhibition of examples of innovative design and engineering […]
“Five years on from the beginning of the financial crisis, public confidence in the banking industry is at an all time low, with a series of scandals exposing mis-management and corruption at the very heart of the banking system that have cost UK consumers dear, said Peter Vicary-Smith, chief executive of Which? following a consumer […]
The result of the international competition for an architect to work with The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the TR Warszawa Theatre on their new buildings in Warsaw has been announced. Thomas Phifer and Partners’ proposal was chosen out of 12 bidding architecture firms which included Henning Larsen Architects, UNStudio and Foster + […]
“Where Art Can Take You” is the campaign to transform the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The bold and recognisable existing building designed by Mario Botta opened in 1995 and was always a delight to visit, with its programme of changing exhibitions. It was however constrained by its size and is now closed […]
As you enter Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, two things uplift you. The first is the vast circular design in the floor, laid out as a circular Labyrinth. The second are rays of coloured light cascading as if through a forest down from the vaulted roof of the nave. The Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral was […]
"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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