The art collection of the Arts Council of England is a well-kept secret. Even its website does not provide as much information as other galleries now show about the works in their collections. Yet this is a public collection, full of riches and deserves to be seen more. It does provide valuable and welcome loans […]
Having been sealed for several thousand years, opening the royal tombs in Egypt has resulted in damage from the moisture, dust and movement of tourists who naturally wish to visit these unique sites. 3D scanning and printing has come to the rescue by enabling the creation on a facsimile in an underground chamber not far from the […]
It was a brave decision for the US Government to move its UK embassy from the current location in Mayfair to the emerging new urban area of Battersea on the south of the river in London, albeit security concerns about the existing building had been the primary driver for this. The current American Embassy London Chancery Building opened […]
RIBA Journal reports on Sheppard Robson’s newly completed HQ built as the latest addition to the Masdar Research Institute. Jan Carlos Kucharek considers out that this building, which achieves laudable sustainability criteria at no additional cost compared to a normal speculative office building, can be seen as a mid-point in Masdar’s journey to sustainability. Mascar […]
One of Tate Modern’s best works is Matisse’s “The Snail”. With the new exhibition at Tate Modern - ”Henry Matisse Cut- Outs” -, this picture, created a year before his death in 1954, suddenly falls into place alongside the other work of his last 20 years in the most comprehensive exhibition of Matisse’s late works ever held. Matisse started experimenting with […]
A Ford Focus on a rooftop suddenly starts up, the doors open, the the lights flash and the radio plays; a white piano suddenly starts playing; you fight your way to daylight through a room of white balloons and then fight back to the exit following the signs on the ceiling. Adrian Searle in the […]
The elegant and vast neoclassical hall of the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art has been taken over by an art installation on time and space travel by Aleksandra Domanovic the Slovenian artist who has had several international exhibitions, including at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. This is her first solo […]
The Natural History Museum has announced the winner of the design competition to redevelop its grounds in South Kensington, London as Niall McLaughlin Architects with Kim Wilkie. The aim is to create an innovative landscaped environment that matches the visual qualities of the world-famous Waterhouse building and Darwin Centre and will improve the experience for the 5 million visitors […]
News from the University of Liverpool of ARION 1 – a unique stream-lined bicycle which the university’s team of engineering students believes will become the fastest-ever human-powered vehicle. The University of Liverpool Velocipede Team is hoping to smash the 83.13 mph record set in September 2013 by TU Delft and VU Amsterdam universities by reaching a speed […]
The Museum of the Uprising in Warsaw is one of the best museums in Poland. Located in the growing financial district in the vast industrial architectural hulk of a former power station, it was opened on the 60th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising of 1944. It is an evocative and eerie museum which explains how the Polish resistance bravely fought […]
"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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