Driving down a bumpy narrow lane in the Sussex countryside, you arrive at the farm. You know you are in the countryside by the smells and sounds of farm activity; it is not an air-conditioning unit that you hear humming in the background, but a milking machine. The buildings around the farmhouse, Charleston, have just […]
Running along the Thames, Battersea Park has many aspects and different areas to be discovered within it. Tucked away, hidden behind the trees is Battersea Evolution, which houses many events and exhibitions, five minutes walk from the Pump House Gallery. This week it has come alive with the best of affordable art from around the […]
The sculptor Henry Moore and his family moved to a rented property in Perry Green in Hertfordshire in 1940 after their home in London had been bombed. They enjoyed the environment so much that what was expected to a temporary move became permanent and, with the sale of a sculpture to an American collector (astonishingly […]
In 1980, Georg Baselitz was asked to represent Germany at the Venice Biennale, along with Anselm Kiefer. In doing so, he started to explore sculpture in addition to his painted works. Roughly-hewn timber, influenced by German folk art and native African carvings marked a new departure and no review of his work of the 1980’s […]
You’ve missed it, but if you were worried about Brexit and the world in general, there was an opportunity to buy a Swiss passport at 37 Dover Street in London for two days, the 5th and 6th of October, for the bargain price of 20 euros (cash, and no pounds accepted). Tom Sachs argues that […]
As you enter through the doors of the former industrial building, It feels like one of those very expensive garages where your car will be serviced by men wearing white gloves. But there are only two vehicles here, both beautifully restored. One, a 1974 Porsche 914, is held in mid-air perfectly balanced by a 390lb […]
It is well known that our built environment contributes to our well-being, and that there is a correlation in urban areas between high levels of pollution, ill-health and economic poverty. After the Second World War, high quality new housing estates were designed by architects such as Powell and Moya at Churchill Gardens in Pimlico, to […]
The architectural design of art galleries go through phases. We’ve had 18th and 19th century picture galleries in which to display old masters with their tall burgundy walls in an elegant architectural setting as at Dulwich and the National Gallery of Scotland, the modernist galleries of the 20th century such as Mies van der Rohe’s […]
Proving that excellent art exhibitions don’t need to be behind the closed reverential doors of art galleries, the lobby of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf is bubbling with contemporary sculptures by two artists Michael Pennie and Andrew Sabin. Born twenty years apart, with their artistic style reflecting their two different generations, the recent sculptures […]
In August 1835, the British scientist and inventor Henry Fox Talbot took what may be the first photographic image on a negative, of a gothic window at his home Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire. Little did he know what an industry he would create as photography developed, with companies such as Kodak rising and falling 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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