The Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco (born 1962) arrived on the London art scene with his 1996 exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, followed with a major retrospective at Tate Modern in 2011 and an exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh in 2013. His latest exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery in London shows […]
The exhibition title “June: A Painting Show” at Sadie Coles HQ in London cleverly conceals the real subject, which is how contemporary artists from around the world portray people at work, at play, in threatening environments or in provocative situations, in a wide variety of colourful, geometric and imaginary settings, some quite surreal and some […]
Barabara Hepworth is on par with Henry Moore as one of Britain’s greatest twentieth century sculptors and Tate Britain celebrates her life and work in a major retrospective exhibition which opened this week. The exhibition presents different aspects of her work as her life and career developed. The first room focuses on carved sculptures, often […]
The Leopold Museum in Vienna houses one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art and the world’s largest collection of work by Egon Schiele with a substantial number of works by Gustav Klimt (of whom Schiele was a protégé) and other modern artists and furniture by designers such as Olbrich, Hoffmann and Moser. Housed […]
There is a theme of death around the world of Saatchi at the moment, but in a positive and witty way. Kevin Roberts, Chairman of the advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi has been promoting his thesis that “Marketing is dead. Strategy is dead. Management is dead”, reported in the Guardian earlier this year, but also […]
The demolition of Victor Horta’s Maison du Peuple (“House of the People”) in Brussels in 1965 was one of the greatest losses of his work. Opened in April 1899, the building was a masterpiece of experimental art noveau, containing more than 600,000 kg of ironwork. Demolition went ahead despite international protests and the building was […]
The Hansahuis, built in 1568, was the economic heart of the Hansa towns in Antwerp until it burned down in 1893. Today, on the same site a new building has risen up – the MAS (Museum aan de Stroom // Museum on the River) which brings together the collections from the former Ethnographic Museum and […]
Antwerp’s prosperity is intertwined with it being a major European port. Located on the River Scheldt, 53 miles from the North Sea, it is connected by railways and waterways to France, Holland and Germany. While the port continues to be successful today, activities have changed and there are heritage buildings and docks along the river […]
Between 1873 and 1935 the Red Star Line operated transatlantic liners which transported between two and three million people from Antwerp to America and Canada, with connections to Cuba and Mexico. Many of these emigrants would have arrived in Antwerp by train at the magnificent Central Station and must have been astonished at the architecture, […]
In 2009 Newsweek ranked Antwerp Central Station as the world’s fourth greatest train station, after St Pancras in London, Grand Central Terminal in New York and Chhatrapati Shivaji in Mumba. The grand and beautiful station building with its cathedral-like dome was built between 1895 and 1905 to designs by Loius Delacenserie with the the 185 […]
"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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