Is Google reinventing itself? Earlier this month Google bought New Mexico’s Titan Aerospace company for an undisclosed sum and this week there was news that it had filed a US patent to embed microscopic cameras into contact lenses. Titan Aerospace develops solar-powered unmanned aircraft that can fly non-stop for prolonged periods, beaming wireless signals to the ground and […]
Warsaw’s architecture has a chequered past. Much of the historic centre was destroyed and rebuilt after the second world war. Modern architecture in Eastern Europe was generally functional, economic and uninspiring. Thereafter modern buildings were of mixed quality of design, often incorporating geometrical shapes for the sake of it. The most recent buildings indicate that […]
Warsaw now has one of the most innovative museums in the world with the newly-refurbished Chopin Museum in the Ostrogski Palace in Warsaw. The new museum, curated by Ico Migliore and Mara Servetto of Migliore+Servetto Architetti Associati, allows the visitor to go back in time into the world of Chopin by use of innovative audiovisual and interactive technology […]
3D-printing, one of the greatest technologies of our era, continues to achieve amazing new developments in medical science. Recent reports show its use in heart operations in two ways. In the first, the creation of a 3D model of the heart of 14-month old, Roland Lian Cung Bawi, from Owensboro, Kentucky who was diagnosed with four congenital heart defects enabled more […]
Two complimentary exhibitions at Tate Britain, the first is “RuinLust”, the artistic portrayal of ruins from the time that they became picturesque in the 18th century. The second is Phyllida Barlow’s massive installation which fills the whole of the classical Duveen galleries. It is a measure of how disappointing the exhibition is that the installation […]
After the Second World War, prefabricated houses or “prefabs” were built across Britain to house the returning soldiers and those who had lost their homes in the German bombing. As a child of the 1950′s, I grew up in one which had a fantastic plot of land in which my father used to grow vegetables. […]
An interesting experiment to include contemporary Latin American and African art in the one exhibition, but it works. The Saatchi Gallery has a new exhibition called “PANGAEA” which was the name of the landmass when the two continents were joined, many millennia ago in the prehistoric era. There is nothing prehistoric about the artworks on […]
More architectural waves – also published are the designs by Tsinghua University and New York firm Studio Link-Arc for their competition-winning design for the pavilion to represent China at the World Expo 2015 in Milan. Tsinghua University and Studio Link-Arc, which is led by Chinese architects Yichen Lu and Qinwen Cai and US architect Kenneth Namkung, […]
New designs by Norman Foster and Frank Gehry for a neighbourhood of 1300 homes as the third phase in the redevelopment at Battersea Power Station in south London were published yesterday. What a contrast between the two architects – Foster creates a cool well-mannered design that builds on his other work nearby; Gehry in contrast […]
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has published it annual architecture awards for 2014 which show the breadth of creativity in architectural profession in Scotland. A few will be highlighted here. One of the more interesting projects which was shortlisted is “District 10 – Unit 0.1 in Dundee, Scotland’s first office development created […]
"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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