Baguettes as hard as wood, a cross-legged figure made of bread, a pizza box with a swirling black hole dragging it down and a swan made of oversized shells, standing in front of the window facing another figure made from shells, this time a frog. The materials are wood and bronze, carved, cast and painted; […]
A continent to watch for contemporary art is Africa. Earlier this month, the colour, vibrancy and political commentary of South African art was on show against the richly-coloured walls at Bonham’s auction house for the latest sale of South African art on the 21st of March, with many of the artists now becoming known internationally […]
The challenge of having a gallery on the 3rd and 4th floor of a building in the heart of London is how to carry huge sculptures by an artist such as Antony Caro up and down the narrow stairs. In Amsterdam, the answer would be opening windows and a hoisting beam (though it would have […]
Windows looking out onto a typical spring day in London, with grey skies, rain that seems to not know when to stop (if ever) and people rushing past in their dark coats, clutching umbrellas overhead. On the walls are other windows, misty, foggy, through which are men and women are waiting to be discovered. […]
On the road from the airport to the city centre of Havana, you drive past sentry boxes on the side or the centre of the road. Are these part of a defensive military system? No, they are part of he water system to the city. Considered one of the wonders of Cuban engineering, the Acueducto […]
The 1920’s and 1930’s was a time of style, speed and sophistication, a golden age of flight, sea, car and rail travel, art deco art and architecture and those wonderful transport posters and classic films like Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’. Italian Futurism, originally founded in Milan in 1909, had a revival in the 1920’s with the […]
At dusk on a winter’s night, the blank white windows contrast eerily with the dark brickwork of this former industrial building; inside it is reversed – the windows project the dark colour of the night sky against the white walls of the gallery spaces. It is interesting to see how different these spaces look at […]
Outside, Berkeley Square is relatively quiet, covered in snow, with cars and motor cycles parked around the square creating white silhouettes. Against this snowy backcloth, spread over four floors, sit sculptures and paintings from Phillip’s 20th Century & Contemporary Art evening and day sales which include work by Damien Hirst, along with with Igor Mitoraj’s […]
In New Bond Street, Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sit on a park bench chatting in conversation. Across Piccadilly, in elegant rooms in Bennett Street in St James, surrounded by London clubs, men sit in metal chairs in groups of two and three, laughing and smiling, with twinkles in their eyes, dice and a […]
Away from the centre of Brixton, tucked away at one corner of a Brutalist concrete building, almost hidden behind the ramp to the entrance floor, is a doorway leading down to Block 336, an expansive basement space full of pipes, ventilation plant and electrical switchgear, with white-painted walls between the concrete columns, concrete floors and […]
"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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