The tourist and cultural world is in a bit of a quandary. Earlier this month, a 55 million euro replica of the and its 35,000 year old paintings was opened by the French government. While the aim is laudable, to allow visitors to experience these historic paintings without destroying them, is this the best way […]
The Fleming-Wyfold Foundation in London and the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) in Edinburgh are working in partnership to bring an annual exhibition of work selected from the RSA’s New Contemporaries exhibition to London, while the Fleming Collection supports the Fleming-Wyfold Bursary awarded annually to an artist exhibiting in the RSA exhibition. The seventh annual RSA […]
This is the time of year when the vast “creative warehouse” of the Granary Building, which has been the new home of Central Street Martins since 2011, comes into its own as the doors are flung wide opened to the public for the Degree Shows, of which there are two- this weekend is focussed on […]
At Lazarides Rathbone, the “cityscape artist” Frank Laws presents a series of paintings, some of which are derived from housing estates in the changing area of Hackney, commenting on the contrasts between the grittiness of such housing and the hope and warmth of the people who occupy it, and the need and ability to create […]
The entrance to the Mount Street Gardens in Mayfair, London has a new marker in the form of a colourful tower of polyhedra by the Canadian artist Angela Bulloch who has an exhibition of her work at the Simon Lee Gallery showing more of her geometric towers which build on Brancusi’s Endless Column using 21st […]
Nestling in a green landscape like a pavilion in a park, a colourful contrast to the grey car park which surrounds the towering 1970’s block of Charing Cross Hospital, Maggie’s West London is one of 17 centres at NHS cancer hospitals in the UK providing support to people with cancer and their family and friends. […]
Manchester is achieving a social and economic renaissance with a multi-faceted strategy that includes science and innovation in partnership with its universities and culture through new arts facilities, building on the successful extension of the Manchester Art Gallery designed by Hopkins Architects and completed over a decade ago and HOME, the new £25m arts centre […]
Art15 “London’s Global Art Fair” returned to London with 500 artists from 40 countries around the globe. UK galleries are purposely kept constrained in number so that the Fair can introduce art from countries such as China, Bahrain, Taiwan, Lebanon, Jordan and South Korea, not often seen in London, in addition to European and US […]
London was ablaze with new and stylish designs at Clerkenwell Design Week and May Design Series 2015. The latter, held at Excel in London has now established itself as a leading international design show, with over 500 brands showing the best of contemporary furniture, textiles, lighting, décor, bathrooms, kitchens and technology. Highlights include special areas […]
It is the last week of the much-acclaimed exhibition ‘Inventing Impressionism’ at the National Gallery in London which is both a stunning exhibition of French Impressionist art and also a fascinating history of the courage and perseverance of the Paris art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel who discovered, supported and promoted emerging and risky new young artists […]
"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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