While light is streaming in through the stained glass windows, the walls and ceiling of the elegant 18th century space is covered in blood as is the marble statue at the entrance. It is perhaps appropriate that this is the chapel of a hospital, and one that was originally founded to treat incurables, where blood […]
At 8am in the morning, the normally bustling Oxford Street is remarkably quiet and empty, with little activity but street-sweepers and rubbish collectors clearing away the debris from the day before, drivers in vans delivering new goods to restock the shops, cafes and restaurants for the day ahead and commuters spilling out of the underground […]
Black is the new white – the upper gallery of the Marian Goodman Gallery in Soho, London, has turned black, with the light from the rooflights reflected off the polished black floor tiles. In the centre is a marble reproduction of the legs of Michaelangelo’s David, also reflected in the polished floor and plinth by […]
Upstairs you climb into the cool white clean environment of the upper space, with its industrial concrete floor and daylight flowing down through the rooflights. But wait! Why is a lettuce sitting on a stainless steel box, or eggs on another box, or moss on another? Are those food items on the stainless steel table? Are we […]
Flowing into the Marketing Suite for Santiago Calatrava’s Peninsula Place, the NOW Gallery in Greenwich Peninsula is a mass of colour, geometry and reflections with its current installation, Walala X Play, by Camille Walala, loved by children who take off their shoes to explore the reflections, the maze-like corridors, and the different geometric patterns which […]
First the Millennium Dome (now the O2), then Ravensbourne College designed by Foreign Office Architects, a decade later and new residential blocks under construction designed by SOM. Greenwich Peninsula is at long last taking off, busy with cranes and building works. At the heart, is a bold vision for a major new building by Santiago […]
Canada, as we know it today, was established in 1867 when the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia joined together, to be followed by other provinces and territories. Two exhibitions in London celebrate the 150th anniversary of this event, looking at different aspects of Canadian nationalism and identity through art. The Canadian flag […]
London Clubs continue to prosper, with new ones continuing to open. The newest is also one of the oldest, the Learned Society of Extra Ordinary Objects, the Club Room and Gin Bar of which has popped up for the summer in Somerset House. The Learned Society was established in 1717, initially meeting in The Boar […]
In among the classical buildings around Trafalgar Square in London, it is unusual to find an arts space with an experimental flexible shell with all the services exposed. This, however, is the gallery space in the Korean Cultural Centre, with the added benefit of windows connecting with passers-by on the ground floor and allowing daylight into […]
In 2016, the German photographer Peter Lindbergh was invited to photograph the bronze and plaster sculptures in the world’s largest collection of work by Alberto Giacometti, many of which are currently on loan to Tate Modern for their current retrospective of Giacometti’s work. Running in parallel with the Tate Modern exhibition, the pure white 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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