At a time when the tide may be turning in terms of the sheer scale of plastic waste that is transported around the world, which countries such as China, the Philippines and Malaysia are no longer willing to accept, a house made of reusable plastic bottles made its appearance in Clerkenwell in London, a potential […]
With the London Wine Fair downstairs in the Grand architectural spaces of Olympia, in parallel the European Coffee, Tea & Soft Drinks Expo was upstairs and, in some ways, more in tune with the changing times that we live in. In addition to the expected emphasis on new products and new tastes for example the […]
“Making good wine is a skill. Fine wine is an art,” so said the famous winemaker Robert Mondavi. Underneath the soaring cathedral-like cast iron arches of Olympia earlier this month, the world of wine had come to London with the annual London Wine Fair, with wine makers, buyers, restauranters, retailers all seeking to find the […]
I’m a 3 Dimensional person, I guess that goes with being an architect. Or is it that I just enjoy the juxtaposition of three dimensional works with two and the quirky relationships that they can have. Rarely do the hanging structures of an artist frame his own works, so the current exhibition of Gordon Cheung’s […]
New Zealand to Canada; China to South Africa; Columbia to the United Kingdom; South Africa to Russia: 120 selected artists from 40 countries across the globe came together at Old Chelsea Town Hall for this year’s London Art Biennale masterminded by Roberto Gagliardi and the Gagliardi Gallery. The celebration of art, flowers and gardens which […]
It seems astonishing, but while there are an amazing number of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, many of them in the Royal Collection and being displayed this year, the 600th anniversary of his death, there are apparently less than 20 of his paintings in existence, which might explain the hype around the controversial sale of […]
Well done to Pi Artworks for a double show of the German-Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna, with her solo exhibition at the gallery in Eastcastle Street and inclusion in the Pi Artworks stand at the recent and new Draw Art Fair. Inevitably what was on show at the Draw Art Fair was limited and acted as […]
Two female artists – two dinner tables, one a glittering crystalline table of dreams by the Pakistani artist Sara Shakeel, of creativity and of family dinners, the other smaller table full of graphics, part of a story about travelling between Russia and Europe and the USA in the west. Russian artist Victoria Lomasko’s graphic black […]
This spring, different art galleries in London have decided that white walls are so last year, for example at NOW London for Sara Shakeel, at Hauser & Wirth for Keith Tyson and, now, at Waddington Custot for their exhibition on grafitti art. Is this the start of a revolution, where modern gallery designers and curators […]
The Bauhaus remains one of the defining art, architecture and design hot-beds of the 20th century; so much so that it is astonishing to think that it celebrates its centenary this year. Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar, but sadly with only a short life, being closed down in 1933 as ‘degenerate’, many […]
"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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