The current exhibition on contemporary art from Caribbean countries has received great reviews. The Cuban Art News has an interview with Elvis Fuentes, coordinating curator of d in New York before coming to Miami in which Elvis talked about the ideas behind the exhibition and the importance of Cuba within the exhibition, including both artists […]
The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the new contemporary art museum located in the developing Museum Park in Miami opened last year and (at last) provides Miami with an international quality museum setting for its own collection of contemporary art, for international art projects and galleries in which to house international loan exhibitions, such as […]
Zaha Hadid’s first building in Hong Kong, recently completed, is the Jockey Club Innovation Tower for Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The 76 metre high building is located on the University’s campus close to Hung Hom station in Kowloon and povides 12,000 sq m net space for about 1,800 staff and students. Zaha Hadid won the […]
Thomas Heatherwick has released his proposals for the new Al Fayah Park is Abu Dhabi. His endless talents are now taking landscaping into new worlds, first with the Garden Bridge over the River Thames in London and now with this proposal for a new park in Abu Dhabi of which he says: “It’s not a […]
Perhaps with all the troubles in different parts of Africa, art is not the highest priority, but art and civilisation go together; from the ealiest times, people have drawn and gained inspiration from art. Alexa Dalby writing in African Business in January reported the comments of Ed Cross the African art expert on the rise […]
Three exhibitions among the fine art galleries of Cork Street in Mayfair, London; three different artists or groups of artists; three contrasting use of deconstructed and reconstructed geometry. The British Artist Mark Vaux’s aptly-named exhibition “New Ovals” at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery has a number of his recent works focused on large ovoid paintings. Vaux […]
Edgar Martins is a Portuguese photographer who studied and lives in London. His work characteristically involves long exposures and he imparts a calm and surreal quality to industrial and urban landscapes. His series “The Time Machine”, working with the EDF Foundation, highlighted the beauty of 20 hydro-electricity generating plants across Portugal. In 2010, his series ” A […]
One of the most flexible and high-tech spaces at King’s College London on the Strand is the old Anatomy Museum, originally part of the medical school but long since converted to other uses, which proves if you create the right quality of space you will have long term flexibility. Chinese artist Wang Xin’s installation The […]
Giuseppe Penone’s monumental works derived from nature are on display at his exhibition called “Circling” at the Gagosian Gallery in London An exhibition of Giuseppe Penone’s monumental and naturalistic works is on display at the Gagosian Gallery in London in an exhibition aptly named “Circling”. White marble unpeels itself from the ground into a giant roller; leather […]
The Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw is housed in the reconstructed Ujazdowski Castle. Currently it is showing an exhibition of contemporary German art. “The exhibition is trying to question our ability to speak about the future in the present world. Future Perfect (the name of the exhibition), in fact is a tense describing events […]
"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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