You forget the scale, breadth and quality of the Wallace Collection – a treasure house of art off the tourist trail in Hertford House, north of the shopping frenzy in Oxford Street – with superlative examples of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries, in particular a strong emphasis on work […]
Wilkinson Eyre’s new residential development at King’s Cross has given three historic gasholders with their sculptural frames new life and a new identity, their 19th century classical sculptural frames facing across to the new park within the fourth gasholder and out to the Regent’s Canal beyond. In one of the hottest summers of recent […]
The broken skylight of an old warehouse roof, twisted trees perhaps the result of a forest fire, the tangled steelwork of a collapsed building, perhaps again the result of a fire, all silhouetted against an empty sky. These have been graphically painted by British artist Tony Bevan in his exhibition at Ben Brown, showing the […]
Entering through a small discrete doorway, you walk down a long corridor and open the door into what appears to be a hospital room, with two hospital beds in the centre, those beds with metal frames – easy to wash down – and huge wheels with ugly brakes so that they can be moved backwards […]
The best exhibition yet by the young British artist Jack Tanner has opened at the Woolff Gallery at Fitzrovia, demonstrating Jack’s mathematical prowess using screws and paint with intricate precision to create three dimension graphic, geometric and optical works. The window of the gallery is covered with Jack’s trademark screw heads and, inside, his early […]
Catastrophe! Little known, but one of the architect Robert Adam’s earliest works with its original 18th century furniture, decorations and paintings almost complete, including the largest set of authenticated early Chippendale furniture in the world, the house and its contents were to be sold. With the catalogues published and bidders from around the world […]
On a wall are shelves of different glass jars and urns, which could be something from a very expensive perfumery in Bond Street. Here they are different, more poignant; each contains the ashes of a books belonging to an imaginary Library of Alessandria, a counterpoint to the Library of Alexander which burnt down in the […]
If the streets and buildings of Lacock in Wiltshire seem familiar, it will be because you have seen them in Harry Potter movies, but the town has scientific importance as the birthplace of photography in Britain. It has also been used as a setting in other films including Downton Abbey, The White Princess and Cranford. […]
Put on your black topcoat, brightly coloured waistcoat, elegant trousers and your new polished shoes with their silver buckles, and collect your cane at the door as you saunter out into the most amazing sight – a complete new town being created in neoclassical style, its fresh golden stone shining in the sunshine and the […]
I have discovered that a friend, now retired, used to work in the basement of 3 Hanover Square when it was an HSBC Bank. In Southfields where I live, the HSBC has now become a popular Café Nero and our former NatWest Bank sits empty awaiting a new use. Will it be yet another coffee […]
"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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