Standing outside, looking at what appears quite a plain English parish church, it might seem a surprise to learn that the congregation is about to embark on a £1 million conservation project with the support of Heritage Lottery and other funding. Open the door however and what is revealed is one of England’s most historic […]
It’s an austere and confusing house on the outside, with a long severe frontage facing onto the park and, on the other side, different periods and different styles clashing into each other. You get a feeling that this house is all about the inside and the previous generations of owners concentrated on the interior design, […]
Looking very traditional and slightly forbidding on the outside, with its classical portico leading into the tall neo-classical entrance hall with its Doric columns and two Rodin statues standing guard over the staircase, the Manchester Art Gallery inside is much larger and more expansive than you would expect, with a contemporary twist at its heart […]
The white walls of PACE in Burlington Gardens in London have been taken over by the black and white graphical works of the young American artist Adam Pendleton who, in 2012, was the youngest artist (then 28 years old) to sign with the PACE Gallery since the 1970′s, with the white columns of the gallery […]
Sometimes in art, apparently simple ideas, well executed, can be extremely powerful and moving. At the White Cube Gallery in Bermondsey, the floor of the south gallery has been completely paved in stone, on which 300 names of victims of the immigration crisis appear and disappear in an atmosphere of hushed silence within the white […]
Vast expansive photographs, showing the impact of Man’s activity on our planet, initially looking colourful, beautiful and very granular, but look closely – there are few people here and the impact is immense. In the window, the Dandora Landfill #3 has the colour and texture of a coral reef or a hillside covered in blossom, […]
One of England’s great cathedrals, with its tower standing over 40 metres tall above the Fens, Ely Cathedral was rebuilt in the late 11th and 12th centuries in Romanesque style following the Norman invasion then had a burst of exuberance in the 14th century in highly decorated Gothic style in the Choir, the beautiful Lady […]
President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the US/Mexico borders may have created publicity and controversy, but in fact there is nothing new in the idea and there are already walls along part of the border, plus naval patrols to prevent people circumventing them by sea. History is full of walls from, in the UK alone, […]
Brightening up the cold autumnal nights and reflecting on the maritime history of King’s Lynn, six buildings are lit up with different digital projections from dusk onwards, each linked to the individual building. At the historic Custom’s House, one of the most architecturally perfect such buildings in the country artist Julia Dantonnet created “Night Sailors” […]
What do a three-seater sofa (designed in 1930) and dining room chairs with cane seats (designed in 1916) by Kaare Klint, Flemming Larsen’s ‘Third’ armchair covered in sheepskin (designed around 1935) and a desk by Peter Hvidt and Orla Molgarrd-Nielsen (designed in 1959) have in common? On show for the recent auctions of modern 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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