Pavement space is at a premium in packed shopping streets such as Oxford Street and Regent Street in London where shoppers have to navigate around a bewildering array of pavement street furniture – traffic lights, traffic barriers, traffic signs, directional signs, street lights and bus stops. Anything than can be done to reduce the amount […]
Are there still spaces in the crowded urban area of central London for development of art galleries, unless part of a major redevelopment such as Phillips in Berkeley Square or Hauser and Wirth in Savile Row. While it seems highly unlikely, the White Cube found the site of an old electricity sub-station in Mason’s Yard, […]
In some ways there couldn’t be a larger contrast; Ordovas Art is located in expensive ground floor space in a new office block in the heart of Mayfair, while in Old Street in Hoxton, Charlie Smith London is hidden on the 2nd floor above the Reliance pub. Without apparent collaboration, however, these two galleries are running parallel curated […]
Looking directly ahead, there is a shape and a pattern to this one viewpoint at this particular moment in time. Move to the side and the space, the shape and the pattern changes, just as they do in real life. Is this a flat hologram? No; its more subtle than that – it’s a three […]
Shoreditch is a intensively built-up urban area with relatively few green spaces, one being Hoxton Square. Sadly, since the original White Cube Gallery opened here – now gone and the building full of office workers – the area has changed and the Square is almost entirely surrounded by trendy bars and restaurants with not an […]
Imagine a world in which antique rusty hand-saws which for many decades were used to saw through trees, branches and timber planks become transformed into trees…..Imagine a pile of old wooden rulers which used to measure out timber for marquetry themselves becoming marquetry panels…..Imagine ordinance-survey maps that illustrate the location of woodlands in your neighbourhood […]
You are sitting in the gloomy van with darkened windows and locked doors; it stops and you hear the creak of heavy doors opening ahead; the van moves forward and there is a deafening and eerie sound as the doors shut and are bolted behind you, then the van doors open slowly. This is it […]
In Brixton, they are piled on top of each other, are colourful with the patina of years of travelling around the world; in Shoreditch they are black and ordered with military precision along the street. Black is the new uber-trendy colour in Shoreditch, from the rippling facade of Rivington Place to the Pret a Manger […]
In the blackness, one small white dot indicates light in the distance far away, but how far? Is it within reach or is it an infinite distance away? In another area of blackness there are thin black lines, the chinks of light through a door; is the door opening, is it closing, or given is […]
Walking along New Inn Yard in Shoreditch, the black metal roller shutter to a loading bay is open, while the adjacent windows are secured with iron bars. The view through the doors is not of delivery vans, packing cases or storage racking but of art, in what must be one of the more unusual gallery […]
"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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