In architecture, 3D printing has been used to create design models of proposed projects, allowing many options to be developed quickly, and to make components for buildings . Three projects have been published where 3D printing is being used to make complete houses. Will this technology revolutionise the domestic building industry? Last year, in Amsterdam, […]
Pro Direct, the world’s largest on-line retailer of football boots, has appeared in Carnaby Street, London with its first physical shop which makes buying football boots as stimulating and exciting an experience as buying the most expensive jewellery in Bond Street. The new store, designed by Green Room, aims to ‘capture the dynamic feeling of […]
The Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at the London School of Economics is one of the finalists for the 2014 Stirling Prize. Meanwhile another recent building in London designed by the same architect, O’Donnell and Tuomey, continues to be a success – the Photographers’ Gallery in Ramillies Street. There are similarities between the two buildings […]
The Imperial War Museum in London had a major redevelopment about 30 years ago after a study into future options considered, among others, relocation to Bankside or Battersea Power Stations, but it was decided to remain and redevelop in its original home. At that time, the redevelopment proposals were not without controversy because of […]
It is busy summer for Street Art in London. In July, Steve Lazarides curated the stunning exhibition “BANKSY- The Unauthorised Retrospective” in Sotheby’s S2 Gallery in Mayfair, London. Steve Lazarides, collector and gallery owner, is one of the first figures to recognise the importance of street art in modern culture and bring it from the […]
In Lincoln, a unique project has been taking place. Oliver Laric is currently showing part of a new sculptural commission which started when The Collection, which brings together the archaeology museum and the Usher Gallery in the heart of Lincoln, invited the artist Oliver Laric to propose an idea for the Contemporary Art Society’s Annual […]
Today the “Legends of the Martini” opened at the Royal Academy in London. In one room are a range of interactive artworks; in the other a Martini tasting bar with two expert barmen ready to tell you all there is to know about the Martini, while aiming to create the best in London. The artists […]
While, in Glasgow, the Govanhill Baths continues its regeneration project, Goldsmith’s College in London has announced the winners of its design competition to transform the Victorian Laurie Grove Baths into a public art gallery with exhibitions, projects and residencies by leading artists and curators from around the world. The winning design from Assemble, a London-based […]
Take care as you travel on the London underground. While you are watching the other passengers taking “selfies”, you might find yourself captured by Julie Leonard on her iPhone and transformed into a colourful artwork. Julie is a London-based artist who has been inspired by the technology used by the likes of David Hockney to […]
This summer there are a number of fine exhibitions across Scotland. The National Museum of Scotland has an exhibition of art from the Ming Dynasty – a period of three hundred years (1368-1644) marked by social, cultural and economic transformation and an astonishing flourishing of the arts, and is considered to be one of the […]
"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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