The ground-breaking took place last week on the new 15,610 sq ft (1,450 sq m) Innovation Center for the Rocky Mountain Institute, designed by ZGF Architects LLP, on the banks of the Roaring Fork River in Basalt, Colorado, USA. Providing office and conference facilities, the Institute has the objective that the new building will “demonstrate […]
The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project is part of an ambitious European strategy to support large international experimentation facilities across the continent. The lasers at ELI will have intensities 10 times higher than anything currently achievable and will be used for research into material sciences, engineering, medicine, biology, chemistry, pharmacy and astrophysics. The first centre, […]
There has been a feast of German art in London this year. In the spring, three exhibitions – at the British Museum, the Gargosian and the Royal Academy – illustrated different facets of one of Germany’s most famous living artists, Georg Baselitz. This autumn, there are major retrospective exhibitions on Anselm Kiefer and Sigmar Poke […]
In a week when it was pipped at the post for the Stirling Prize for its Saw Swee Hock Student Centre designed by O’Donnell and Tuomey, the London School of Economics held a public exhibition of the designs for its next project as it develops and transforms its central London campus – the Central Buildings […]
This was a great week of celebration of the best of construction and building design across the UK, with both the Stirling Prize and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyor (RICS) Awards. While the Stirling prize is the culmination of the Royal Institute of British Architect’s (RIBA) Awards, the RICS Awards are more broad-based at […]
Taking place this weekend at Somerset House in London is 1:54, which takes its name from the 54 countries on the African continent. 1:54 provides a showcase for contemporary African art, including works from 100 emerging and established international artists around the world and fills the ground floor galleries in both the east and west […]
Two small but different exhibitions on the work of one of the greatest-living modern American artists, most famous for his iconic collage of the American flag, in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Courtauld in the London show what a genius he is. In the exhibition Jasper Johns: Picture Puzzles at the Museum […]
Boston has its exhibitions on art from fabric and fibre; London also has exhibitions on art using these and other materials, both natural and artificial, with the work of the American artist, Richard Tuttle at the Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Modern. The Whitechapel Gallery has an exhibition on Richard Tuttle’s work using fibre, thread […]
Perhaps to recognise Boston’s heritage as a harbour and the location of the Institute of Contemporary Arts on the waterfront, the current exhibition Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present celebrates 50 years of art created from fibre, rope and string which has been woven, twisted and shaped in a variety of ways to create three-dimensional artworks – wall-hanging, […]
Hugely ambitious, breathing new life into the Seafront area of Boston has taken vision and perseverance for what must be one of the largest ongoing city redevelopment projects in the north eastern part of the USA, taking place through good and bad economic periods. Formerly a bustling shipping and warehouse area, the Seafront area declined […]
"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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