Adjacent to the Lighthouse in Woking, Surrey, and alongside the Basingstoke Canal, is the World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Centre, opened in late 2013. The new building designed by Hopkins Architects sits above a car park which, sadly, had to be retained on site, with a new bridge connecting across the canal to the Lighthouse […]
Lazarides gallery at 11 Rathbone Place, north of Oxford Street, London is slightly blighted at the moment by construction works opposite it as the concrete cores for a huge redevelopment of 38,300m²/412,200ft², designed by Make Architects for Great Portland Estates, are progressing upwards. This 2.3 acre site previously housed the Royal Mail West End Delivery […]
Portugese street artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils has opened his new show Dissonance at Lazarides’ gallery in London, developing his work from previous shows Dissection, held at Lisbon’s EDP Museum in 2014 and Vestiges, held at the Gallery Magda Danysz in Paris. Dissonance explores the relationship between individuals and the city and how individuality and […]
The area north of New Oxford Street in London, around Eastcastle Street, is developing as a centre for art galleries, spreading west from Cork Street and north from Soho. In 2012, the Carroll Fletcher Gallery opened to designs by Allsop Gollings Architects. The galleries are ubiquitous white boxes, but what makes this gallery are the […]
With so many old pubs having closed and taken on new uses as supermarkets or fast food restaurants, it is good to find one in City Road, between the Angel Islington and Old Street, that has established itself as one of London’s premier companies for the supply and restoration of antique and marble fireplaces. This […]
Walking today through the centre of Woking in Surrey, it is hard to recognise that the town has a long history, having been the site of a 8th century monastery called Wochingas with a mention of the town in the Doomsday Book of 1086. Its recent history revolves around H.G.Wells who wrote “The War of […]
The area between Angel and Hoxton in London is a mass of building sites as this area is gradually redeveloped, taking advantage of the canals which provide fingers of water onto which many of the new residential apartments will face. In amongst this redevelopment are two old, but transformed, warehouse buildings, Nos 14 and 16 […]
The entrance to the redeveloped area around the old Spitalfields Market is marked by the sculpture I Goat by Scottish sculptor Kenny Hunter, the winner of the Spitalfields Sculpture Prize 2010, which stands on top of a mound of packing crates and was inspired by Spitalfields’ social history. “Goats are associated with non-conformity and being […]
One of the great joys of London is the juxtaposition of the old with the new, whether it is in architecture as the city has developed or in exhibitions of modern art in historic settings. The gallery at Raven Row in Artillery Lane, Spitalfields combines both. It is a short distance from the financial district […]
We are used to seeing art at some of London Underground’s stations, particularly Gloucester Road Underground Station where the brick alcoves of the disused Circle/District Line platform house a changing programme of art displays as part of the “Art on the Underground” initiative, the current display being An English Landscape (American Surveillance Base near Harrogate, […]
"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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