Circular table tennis tables, a room full of digital butterflies and an electronic musical instrument from bottles are just a few of the projects on show at START, the exhibition by Prudential and held at the Saatchi Gallery to bring the world’s emerging and new art scenes to London. On the lower two floors, 38 […]
The birthplace of cinema in the UK has a new life after over 100 years – The Regent Street Cinema at the University of Westminster Cinematic moving images arrived in the UK on 20th February 1896 when the theatre of the Royal Polytechnical Institute in Regent Street London held the first demonstration of the Lumière […]
Flying shirt collars, flocks of denim, a herbarium, reflecting mirrors, shop displays bursting out into the street – its September in Regent Street, London with the sixth year of the RIBA Regent Street Windows Project where architects work with flagship stores to enliven the steet with architectural installations in shop windows. Run in parallel with the London Design […]
Fighting his way through the urban jungle of Soho, the intrepid explorer climbs up and discovers a brightly-lit clearing full of colourful rock totems on grey plinths. Are these a relic from a previous civilisation or are they natural rocks which have been moulded by the wind and by weathering? But wait! – the rocks […]
A brass band marches into the deserted and desolate landscape playing melancholy music, reminiscent of funeral processions in Mexico or South Africa and heightened by the fact that the whole scene is in black and white – there is little colour here – and what is coming next is hidden until the band moves on […]
Fletcher Priest Architect’s scheme for Sedley Place in London, completed in 2006, replaced the existing buildings with a mixed-use 10,000 sq m development of three buildings which successfully increased the floor area, created a new public”pocket-square” and improved the pedestrian connection from the buzz of Oxford Street to the relative calm of Woodstock Street. Different […]
Life and Death – two sides of the same tree – on one branch a figure swings happily; on another a figure swings dead in a noose. On another tree, figures hang exhausted and dying, perhaps from trying to climb up to the light, while in a prison cage, one friend sits doing everyday ablutions, another hangs […]
Banksy may have created a fun park in Weston-super-Mare, but here in London the designer-sculptor Finn Stone has taken over the Woolf Gallery for a world of fun and imagination through his colourful and amusing sculptures. Finn turns the world upside down. Well-known paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Warhol, Van Gogh and others great […]
Stefan Contini established his London gallery at 105 New Bond Street in Mayfair, London, in 2014, following his other galleries centred in Venice, Italy. As is characteristic of many ground floor units in Mayfair, the space is long and narrow. Unlike many commercial galleries, which have simple staircases in steel with concrete or timber treads, […]
Marc Quinn’s work at the White Cube Gallery in Bermondsey incorporates the impressions of objects found on the beach by the sea. Alaric Hammond in his series “Caustic Windows” at the Saatchi Gallery in London incorporates everyday images found in the city, which are then etched into zinc plates and assembled with great precision onto […]
"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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