The Ben Uri Gallery is celebrating it centenary with two exhibition, one at King’s College London in Somerset House; the other in its own gallery in north London. Originally founded as an art society in 1915 by Jewish émigrés in London’s Whitechapel area, it supported artists such as David Bomberg, Jacob Epstein, Jacob Kramer and […]
Two white “man-caves” have been created in different parts of the globe: one is a sculptural installation in London by the Icelandic artist Katrín Sigurðardóttir; the other a structure housing a bedroom and ensuite bathroom within an old warehouse in Sydney designed by Australian architects and urban designers AJ+C. “Supra Terram” at the Parasol Unit […]
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was a master of many trades – philosopher, poet, writer, artist and gardener. Born in the Bahamas of Scottish parents, Finlay was educated at Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire. At the end of the Second World War, he worked as a shepherd before he began to write short stories and poems while […]
The American artist and sculptor Larry Bell (born 1939) is a leading member of the Californian “Light and Space” movement, creating work which explores the relationship between light and colour, solidity and translucency and art and the viewer through the sculptural and reflective properties of his compositions. ‘2D-3D: Glass & Vapor’ is Bell’s fourth solo […]
At the Cini Foundation in Venice in 2013, Marc Quinn exhibited five huge sea shells from his series “The Archaeology of Art” which, set against water, looked as if they had been washed ashore. At the White Cube Gallery in Bermondsey, London, the highly polished floors of the gallery take on the reflective character of […]
Conrad Shawcross’s sculpture The Dappled Light of the Sun 2015 fills the entrance courtyard of the Royal Academy London and a substantial exhibition of his work is now on display at Victoria Miro’s gallery in Wharf Road. The exhibition focusses on maquettes for realised and proposed commisions that demonstrate Shawcross’s exploration of the artistic and sculptural potential of […]
Arup has unveiled the latest installation in its annual design competition ‘No.8@Arup’ which encourages the design of innovative sculptural installations by emerging architectural practices for the atrium in Arup’s London office at No 8 Fitzroy Street. The theme for the third year of the competition is “Designing for People” and the winning entry the “Sentiment […]
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, Unseen Waterloo: The Conflict Revisited at Somerset House, London, displays a series of photographic portraits created by the photographer Sam Faulkner to represent soldiers from an era before photography was invented. At the end of the battle at Waterloo some 54,000 soldiers were dead or injured, with […]
The Great Market Square of Antwerp mirrors the Grand Place in Brussels. On the western side of the square is the ornate City Hall covered in flags and constructed between 1561 and 1565 to designs of Cornelis Floris De Vriendt along with other architects and artists. At that time, Antwerp was one of the most […]
"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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