Towers of computer cables and accessories become works of art, reinforcing the potential to re-use the electrical, computer and mobile phone connections that modern society discards, in part designed by computer companies to have a limited life and with a cable for one device not connecting into another, often even from the same company. Thus […]
Imagine living in London in the latter half of the 19th century. It must have been a great place to live and experience the city growing and developing with new residential areas, new railway stations and new exhibition halls to cement London’s position as a major international centre for design and technology, using the most […]
The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’ has occupied the same location near to St Paul’s Cathedral for its livery hall since 1339, while its existing grand building designed by Philip Hardwick dates from 1835. In 2012 the Company opened the new Goldsmiths’ Centre in Clerkenwell with the RIBA award-winning extension and refurbishment of the old Eagle […]
Born three years after the well-known Brazilian social-photographer, Sebastião Salgado who has had exhibitions in London over the past few years, it is a surprise that Mario Cravo Neto (1947-2009) has never had a solo exhibition here, even though he is considered to be one of the most important photographers in Brazil. Autograph ABP have […]
The urban environment declines north of the east end of Sauchiehall Street away from the busy shops towards Cowcaddens. There are some bright stars – the National Piping Centre in the former Cowcaddens Free Church built by Campbell Douglas & Sellars in 1872 and the Theatre Royal, the oldest theatre in Glasgow, opened in 1867 […]
Smith Square, five minute’s walk from the Houses of Parliament, is dominated by St John’s Smith Square, the baroque church designed by Thomas Archer and completed in 1728 which was converted to a concert hall after being bombed in the Second World War. At one time the Square housed the headquarters of both the Conservative […]
The triangular geometry of the façade, inside and outside, contrasts with the rectangular new buildings being developed around it and with the older traditional buildings nearby; the Karolinska’s Instutet’s new Aula Medica celebrates the regeneration of the university campus at Solna, bridging between it and the local community. The Karolinska Institutet and Akademiska Hus have […]
The title of Saatchi’s new exhibition “Champagne Life” might conjure up images of bohemian dancing with champagne on the beach, but it is taken from one of Julia Wachel’s pictures which contrasts the lonely life of artists working creatively for all the hours of the day that they can in their cold Spartan studios with […]
Hand in hand, lovers stroll along the Malecon. The rolling sea crashes onto the rocks under the romantic Cuban sky with the wild beat of Latin American music floating across from the open windows of the nearby buildings. The change comes quickly – black clouds approach and the sea heaves as the wind blows the […]
Strong geometric images in his paintings reflect Venezuelan artist Cipriano Martinez’s initial training as a civil engineer and his experience of working in his uncle’s print shop in Caracas. They depict the conflicting urban landscape of cities where engineers and architects seek to impose a rigorous order but the overall effect is a chaotic assembly […]
"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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