Nineteenth century Liverpool was a prosperous entrepreneurial city, with the bustling docks full of ships travelling to and from destinations all over the British Empire and the Americas. The young 24 year-old Robert Cain started brewing beer in one pub and successfully grew his business into Robert Cains and Sons with a chain of 200 pubs. […]
A solitary door stands half-open in its frame in the church gardens of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, perhaps hinting of another spiritual world that could be found by the City workers or Polish builders sitting in the gardens if they were brave enough to push it open and enter through it. The opening door also announces the […]
On the garden terrace, Yayoi Kusama‘s mirror box creates infinity for viewers inside and its mirrored walls reflect the space around it, while her aluminium globes create the impression of solidity as they float on the calm surface of the water. Alongside, angular thin lines by another artist – Rana Begum – formed of coloured […]
A pleasant summer’s day in north London, though the environment around the north side of City Road is gritty, urban and uninviting, with a standard prefabricated drive-through McDonalds full of builders from the new residential blocks being built all around. A long queue snakes up Wharf Road under the projecting balconies of the new developments, to […]
Oversized insects are climbing up the walls of the basement, dogs are partying, a broken dog-puppet lies on an old worn table top, other dogs have replaced their master on favourite chairs and play Twister while, in a different role reversal, a naked man, collared like a dog with a chain leash is crashing into […]
Music and visual art are inter-related creative fields; several modern musicians have developed a parallel career in art and others have been inspired to build their own art collection, while art in turn has often provided an inspiration to composers. Bob Dylan not only sold more than one million albums, but started his art career in […]
Like many north American cities, Bridgeport, Connecticut, developed as a major industrial and manufacturing centre until the 1970’s when the middle classes moved out to the suburbs and industry declined, leaving the central areas struggling with run-down buildings, crime, poverty and corruption. As an inquisitive child, having the city dump on your doorstop must provide […]
Leaving the art-deco Clapham South underground station designed by Charles Holden and opened in 1926 and walking along Balham Hill past the food shops, cafes and restaurants, it is easy to miss the white rotunda which looks like an architectural feature in a new development, much less the hidden door at the side that opens […]
In this modern world of digital cameras, selfies on mobile phones and pictures on facebook, twitter and the like, how will artists create the modern portrait? Brett Armory’s exhibition “Internal Dialogue” at Lazarides Rathbone explores everyday places and everyday people and how to make sense of the huge number of snapshots of information which bombard […]
Steel which seems to break free of its physical limitations as spirals burst out, twisting and interconnecting with themselves, their forms repeated in shadows dancing on the walls. A heavy material appears lightweight; a solid material appears fluid; an inert material seems to be alive, happy in the modern white gallery environment of Rosenfeld Porcini or in the elaborate […]
"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
Recent Comments