For the business and first class traveller, comfort is paramount. At this year’s Business Travel Show, airlines such as Singapore Airlines are showing their new accommodation for the discerning traveller which over the recent years has become more and more luxurious, almost returning to the origins of flying a century ago, with seats that turn […]
In the Natural History Museum in South Kensington you can stand an experience the reality of a mild earthquake in Japan as the floor moves and shelves collapse. Across in the Victoria & Albert Museum, there has been another earthquake – the famous Peacock Room designed by Whistler is in chaos, its fine timber joinery […]
It seems a pity that, given that historically the predecessors of the Camberwell College of Arts and the South London Gallery were so intertwined, that today, to the outsider, they seem so separated. I was visiting the South London Gallery (SLG) for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition when, on walking to the bus stop, […]
In north London we have the Camden Arts Centre; in South London the South London Gallery (SLG), both excellent institutions running programmes of contemporary art away from the crowded art scene of central London. Located in the no-man’s land between leafy Camberwell and colourful Peckham, the original building of the SLG was recently supplemented by […]
London has been celebrating two different periods of British art at Tate Britain and the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace, covering the periods from the restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 through to the death of Queen Anne in 1714 and the artistic patronage of George IV as Prince Regent and King (1762-1830). Tate Britain […]
Classic automobile design from Lancia, Ferrari, Ford, Jaguar, Mini, Mercedes, Porsche, Maserati, Bentley, Volkswagen, Fiat, Rolls Royce, Mclaren, Aston Martin and many more has been on show at Olympia this weekend for the Classic Car Show. With prices and auction estimates for every pocket, the Show includes supporting companies ranging from those who carry out […]
In 2005, a tropical storm which destroyed large parts of Panajachel in Guatemala flooded the studio of Swiss artist Vivian Suter who was based there. Rather than throwing the mud-caked and water-stained canvases into bin, Suter responded by accepting the damage as another layer in her work, part of the environment in which she worked. […]
You walk up the elegant street in Mayfair in London, full of very expensive fashion houses, and enter through the doorway of a well-proportioned historic 18th century townhouse into a long cool classical entrance hall. You then tentatively push open the doors of the front room at the side and are transported into another world […]
In the staircase and up to the first floor at the Marlborough Gallery above Lars Fisk’s exhibition ‘Wattle & Daub’, is a splendid series of prints by 20th and 21st century artists Victor Pasmore, Ken Kiff, Bridget Riley, Louise Bourgeois, Grayson Perry and Beatriz Milhazes, covering the last 40 years and showing the variety and […]
While theatres, coliseums and arenas have arcs and curves, most houses in our cities and towns are created of straight lines to create square, rectangular and occasionally angular rooms, with (of course) some grand exceptions like those magnificent staircases or ballrooms in grander houses. Think too of art galleries. Apart from unusual spaces such as […]
"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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