Hidden away through a dark forbidding tunnel under the Regent Bridge built in 1814, at one of the entrances to Waverley Station, in a building that was previously a notorious nightclub, the Ingleby Gallery moved into its new space here in Calton Road in 2008 after refurbishment by Helen Lucas Architects to create a series […]
On a cold February day, the wind howls round the exposed top of the hill, blowing through the Grecian columns of the acropolis, around other monuments and the observatory, modelled appropriately on the “Temple of the Four Winds” and contributing to the city’s name as the Athens of the North. Calton Hill in Edinburgh is […]
There is a revolution going on as new technology enables artists, architects, engineers and designers to create new forms which would previously have been impossible to design, engineer or manufacture. Computers have enabled creative imagination to be unleashed by architects and artists with new forms that can be both simple and sophisticated. This means new […]
In 1891 Marianne Brocklehurst, the daughter of the wealthy silk manufacturer John Brocklehurst who was also Macclesfield’s first MP, made her last journey to Egypt where she watched the archaeological discovery and removal of a large number of mummies in Thebes. This took place only a few years before Lord Astor completed his London office […]
A mass of people and vehicles jostle with each other in the constrained space with the noisy clattering of horses’ hooves on the irregular cobblestones and men and women shouting and screeching at each other to move along the tightly-crowded pavement. On the viaduct above the puffing noise and dirty smell and smoke of steam […]
At long last, the reconfigured Tottenham Court underground station designed by Hawkins Brown has its new southern entrance and the new public square around Centre Point will open later this year. The new entrance has colourful circular artwork by Daniel Buren that has gives a subtle reference to Eduardo Paolozzi’s 1984 mosaics down on the […]
How did a makeshift recording studio built from old timber, metal and corrugated roofing behind a family house in Kingston, Jamaica, become one of the most innovative studios in the 1970’s working with artists such as Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, Clash and Paul McCartney and Wings? The equipment was pretty rudimentary and […]
Tintin’s life and adventures filled the historic terrace rooms of Somerset House, London with sketches, drawings, watercolours and original artwork from the Hergé Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, supplemented with models and graphics. The creation of Georges Prosper Remi, known as Hergé, the young enthusiastic reporter Tintin is one of the most popular and enduring […]
Born three years after the well-known Brazilian social-photographer, Sebastião Salgado who has had exhibitions in London over the past few years, it is a surprise that Mario Cravo Neto (1947-2009) has never had a solo exhibition here, even though he is considered to be one of the most important photographers in Brazil. Autograph ABP have […]
Strong geometric images in his paintings reflect Venezuelan artist Cipriano Martinez’s initial training as a civil engineer and his experience of working in his uncle’s print shop in Caracas. They depict the conflicting urban landscape of cities where engineers and architects seek to impose a rigorous order but the overall effect is a chaotic assembly […]
"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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