It was time for the second phase of my Condo 2019 exploration, though unfortunately I picked one of the coldest days of January. Having already explored Soho and Farrington, it was now time to move east to the varied areas of the East End of London. As with my first visit, I discovered new galleries, […]
Shoreditch in London is a ethnically-diverse, edgy, buzzy area which young people love and identify with. Opposite the sea containers of Box Park, the Hales Gallery is tucked away in the heart of the Tea Building in Spitalfields, through a small door onto the street and down a long corridor to the main gallery space […]
Galleries in London come in all shapes and sizes. While the larger international galleries can occupy impressive gallery spaces in Mayfair, how do small innovative new galleries prosper, given the extortionately high costs of property in London and business rates. Creativity and imagination is required, and there is lots to be found. Ryder Projects occupies […]
Vyner Street in the east end of London is full of warehouse buildings, apparently mostly dating from redevelopment in the 1930’s and now occupied by a variety of uses including car repairs, wholesale flower merchants, artist and theatre studios, architects offices, furniture workshops and art galleries, with old pubs like the Victory somehow surviving at […]
Bricks made of thrown-away rubbish, concrete blocks for facades that can generate electricity through photosynthetic dots, cladding that moves organically to respond to changes in daylight, a new material made from captured CO2, building materials made from mushroom mycelium, recycled oyster shells, husks of corn or reconstructed polystyrene, paint composed of natural lime (as it […]
I am looking forward to the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s new exhibition at Tate Moden in July this year. His work is always enjoyable to see. Will it include another installation in the Turbine Hall, following on from his success with ‘The Weather Project’ in 2003? As a taster, in the old oil tanks deep […]
Last year Bloomberg New Contemporaries was at Block 336 in Brixton in South London; this year it has returned to South London, but to the boundaries of Clerkenwell and Peckham at the South London Gallery (SLG) which, with the recently re-opened Fire Station, provides more and a greater variety of space. Bloomberg New Contemporaries showcases work […]
One of the joys of walking around London, especially in Mayfair with all its art galleries, is that you sometimes see something that takes you by surprise and draws you in. So it was with the Bowman Gallery this week, as I walked up Duke Street, probably named in honour of James, Duke of York, later […]
Commuters and visitors to London may have noticed something different as they waited for their trains to arrive or rushed off trains towards the escalator. Hyde Park Station is one of those characterful Edwardian stations originally built by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton railway, still retaining its original tiling and graphics. (It is […]
On one of the coldest night of the year, the Artic travellers, maps in hand are out exploring, children clutching the hands of their parents in case they get lost in among the tall grey structures, dark on the outside, but still well lit on the inside, some still under construction and, surprisingly, one with […]
"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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