As wars and conflicts rage, the last thing that the combatants think about is saving cultural heritage, unless it is to steal it or purposely destroy it. When reconstruction comes, cultural heritage is crucial in reconnecting communities and people with their past and their identities for the future. The UK’s £30 million Cultural Protection Fund […]
Unlikely as it seems, there is a theme which joins the Colour Palace, this year’s pavilion at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, with Nahoko Kojima’s ‘Sumi’ that fills the entrance gallery in the main building, and the summer exhibition on Modernist British Painting. The theme is art and architecture made from cutting materials. The architects Pricegore, […]
Shock, horror! You’ve walked through the pleasant gardens to the entrance of the house and entered the 16th century doorway and what do you find? Someone is sitting eating sandwiches in the Parlour, while a glass of wine and unfinished meal has been left at one end of the fine table in the Dining Room […]
As you enter, you see ahead of you the vast floors of laboratories of the largest medical research laboratory in the world with over 1000 scientists carrying out ground-breaking life-changing research. With this number of scientists in the Francis Crick Institute, think about the technical expertise needed to support the scale of research – the […]
You can perhaps see why the Scots feel that they are under-appreciated in London with the RIBA exhibition at the V&A Museum ‘Into the Blue’ on spas, lidos and swimming pools, showing only a pool built in the 1890′s in Alloa in Clackmannanshire, while there are also others such as the Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh […]
Continuing the Latin American theme that has been running in several exhibitions in London this summer, Venezuelan artist Alvaro Barrington (born Caracas in and now living in New York) has been at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Mayfair, but with a twist – not one of his own paintings was on show. Alvaro and Julia […]
In this computerised digital age, do designers and architects still use traditional drawings, models and prototypes to develop their ideas, or do they sit at their computers and rely on CAD and other programs to do it all for them? Seventeen designers and architects have come together in this year’s ‘Prototypes & Experiments’ at the […]
You can tell something different is going on. Colour has appeared on the stone walls and floors of Somerset House and Scottish artist Huw Locke (currently on show at the Perez Art Museum in Miami) has provided one of his colourful irreverent coats of arts, reminding us that this building used to be a centre […]
Looking back in time, it was an astonishing ambition, but the second half of the 20th century was an era of such ambitions, including 50 years ago the landing of the first man on the moon. In 2000, the new Brazilian capital city of Brasilia held the distinction of being the largest city in the […]
Two artists on show, but two different ways of showing them. Unit London and Blain|Southern face each other across Hanover Street as black taxis, red buses, cars, vans and bicycles wizz through the street, dodging barriers and road works – not a very happy environment for the poor innocent pedestrian, but hopefully some day peace will […]
"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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