A mass of people and vehicles jostle with each other in the constrained space with the noisy clattering of horses’ hooves on the irregular cobblestones and men and women shouting and screeching at each other to move along the tightly-crowded pavement. On the viaduct above the puffing noise and dirty smell and smoke of steam […]
At long last, the reconfigured Tottenham Court underground station designed by Hawkins Brown has its new southern entrance and the new public square around Centre Point will open later this year. The new entrance has colourful circular artwork by Daniel Buren that has gives a subtle reference to Eduardo Paolozzi’s 1984 mosaics down on the […]
How did a makeshift recording studio built from old timber, metal and corrugated roofing behind a family house in Kingston, Jamaica, become one of the most innovative studios in the 1970’s working with artists such as Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, Clash and Paul McCartney and Wings? The equipment was pretty rudimentary and […]
A chess board is laid out on the floor. On Tuesdays and Fridays recorded music identifies each chess piece; on Wednesday shoes with the right feet on one side and the left feet on the other; on Thursday the players bring their own pieces (16 for each side), with the winner keeping them all, and […]
Tintin’s life and adventures filled the historic terrace rooms of Somerset House, London with sketches, drawings, watercolours and original artwork from the Hergé Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, supplemented with models and graphics. The creation of Georges Prosper Remi, known as Hergé, the young enthusiastic reporter Tintin is one of the most popular and enduring […]
On entering the National Hall at Olympia in London, straight ahead is a sculptural rotunda clad in plates of American cherry and of maple. On further investigation, the visitor goes inside and is offered the opportunity to take one of the plates and fill it with a range of nuts before going out to explore […]
Just imagine checking into a luxurious art deco hotel and entering your bedroom to find grass on the floor, old medicine bottles on the bed, a women hanging on the wall of the bathroom or strange men in the bed and under it, and paintings covering every surface of the bedroom (including the bed). This […]
What do the objects scattered around an artist’s studio reveal about the artist or what does the clutter of a writer’s den reveal about the writer. An artist’s studio is a very personal space. Stacked along the paint-splattered walls are likely to be canvases, some untouched, some started but un-finished and some perhaps ready to […]
Oh to be young again! Young Gods have taken over Charlie Smith London’s gallery in the East End of London. Work by these recent graduates from London art schools have been curated by Zavier Ellis with a palette of restrained colours and an emphasis on texture, movement, words and a variety of materials as with Tess William’s composition in crumpled grey, black […]
Imagine the amount of effort to cut electric plastic sticky black tape into undulating waves, the folds of elegant dresses, patterns on wallpaper, strings of pearls or other intricate shapes, a material which can provide a huge contrast between thick dense black stripes and more delicate intricate shapes. Benjamin Murphy uses black tape as his […]
"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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