A long thin sliver of ground floor and basement, not much wider than a London alley, with windows on three sides facing onto a yard and out to the two adjacent streets. Rathbone Street and Newman Street, north of New Oxford Street in London. Not perhaps the most obvious space for an art gallery, given […]
Fashion models going up stairs, fashion models going down stairs. “Separates” in the Lethaby Gallery brings the work of Central Saint Martins (CSM) 2016 MA Fashion graduates to the public in the Granary at King’s Cross, following a show at London Fashion Week in February. Showing the talent and enterprise of these students in a […]
A decayed old nineteenth century furniture factory with its exposed timber roof and peeling paint, located down a dark narrow alley, becomes an international contemporary art studio; new art contrasting with the old building. In the week in which a digitally-created image of the destroyed Triumphal Arch of Palmyra in Syria was on display in […]
Modern technology and ancient Roman architecture came together when the digitally-created reconstruction of the two-thousand year old Arch of Triumph of Palmyra was unveiled in Trafalgar Square in London before the arch is displayed in different locations around the world and then, all being well, placed near the ruins of the original arch which was destroyed […]
The display floors of Phillips’s Auction House in Berkeley Square are bursting out with masterpieces of modern design from late 19th century to the 21st in advance of the “Design” auction on the evening of the 27th and the fund-raising auction “Time for Design” on the 28th for the Design Museum as it prepares to move into its […]
Carrying out building works to a historic building in one of the busiest and most popular locations in London is a challenge, with security, site accommodation, building material deliveries and rubbish collection all to be hidden behind scaffolding. How to disguise all this? Rather than the most common answer of an image of the building […]
On an expansive flat plateau with views across to the city sit sculptural concrete forms - a pillar for a pencil, curved waves like the wings of the bird or the waves of the ocean, circular pools like ink wells. Oscar Niemeyer (1907 – 2012) considered the University of Mentouri in Constantine in Algeria built between […]
Train passengers out of King’s Cross or St Pancras stations are used to seeing the slender neoclassical gasholder frames silhouetted against the sky. Constructed in 1867, the historic structures are now being refurbished as a residential complex around a park, following a competition win by Wilkinson Eyre in 2005 which proposed three new residential buildings […]
Why does a stunningly beautiful woman dress up in her best and most expensive evening clothes, make up her hair and face and then go on her own to the opera or a musical concert? Why does she sit on her own on an elegant sofa with an empty space alongside? Where is her companion? […]
The public spaces of King’s Place in London are enlivened with sculptures from Pangolin London, which also has an exhibition gallery in the building, an artistic partnership which should benefit everyone. Down on the lower floor of the main atrium, the aluminium sculpture “Brighter than Shadows” sparkles brightly as it reflects the light in its […]
"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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