Continuing the theme of photography of crumbling derelict buildings or structures (see the previous entry on Detroit), Matt Emmett who calls himself a “Forgotten Heritage Photographer” has been shortlisted for this year’s Eisa Maestro photographic competition for his photographs of neglected, spooky, empty decaying buildings and industrial sites which can be seen on his website. […]
Across the highway from the new park which is being created in Rotterdam is the Nieuwe Delftse Poort. Standing isolated and away from the main area of the city, this steel structure, spatially like a graphical line drawing, was designed by the Dutch artist Cor Kraat and installed in 1995. It adds to a tradition […]
“Clean artwork is good artwork’. London’s newest innovation in the restaurant world is a collaborative project between artist David Shrigley and Masterchef Pierre Gagnaire at Sketch Restaurant in London. Shrigley is one of the UK’s most lively artists. He studied and now lives in Glasgow. He is best know for his amusing and irreverent cartoons […]
ZigZagCity is a two-week architectural festival in the centre of Rotterdam which aims to show the urban planning ideas that contribute to the transformation of Rottedam from an industrial port to a vibrant modern city in which architecture, public space and public sculpture has played a key role. As part of this, a new park […]
The devastating fire that destroyed much of the west wing of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art, has been well-reported. Well done to the fire services and the staff of the School who had the difficult task of dealing with the fire and trying to minimise the impact on this historic building […]
Peter Steinhauer is a Singapore-based photographer who has been working across Asia since 1993. His finely-crafted photography focuses on the human, architectural and natural landscapes. DesignBoom has published a set of his latest urban architectural photographs, not of finished buildings but of the earlier stage when, like butterflies or moths, buildings are cocooned, in this […]
COBRA (or CoBrA) was an avant-garde art movement active for a few brief years from 1948 to 1951. The name was derived from the members’ home cities Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. The group was formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret in 1948 in Paris, the members having a […]
William Glackens is not well-known outside the United States of America, although during his lifetime he was known as “America’s Renoir” and perhaps he should be better known. The Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale has a major collection of his works donated by his son and is currently showing what is described as “the […]
To 21st century eyes, it is strange to think that it is only 50 years ago that the United States passed its two landmark bills, the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to ensure that, as had been written in the Constitution, all Americans – regardless of colour – […]
Located in the first floor galleries of the Pérez Art Museum Miami is Mark Dion’s South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit. Art combines with sustainability to focus on the human interaction or interference with the Everglades and the South Florida ecosystem by interweaving art, science, ecology, history, and archeology to tell the story of different attitudes over the […]
"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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