One of London’s ugliest building is undergoing refurbishment, but many people would probably have preferred it to be demolished. Built in 1966 for property developers Ronald Lyon Holdings, the former Brown and Root Tower in Colliers Wood was voted in 2006 as London’s most hated building with 52% of the votes (Centre Point, by contrast […]
At PACE Burlington Gardens in London, the Israeli artist Michael Rovner is showing her work “Panorama”. Many artists experiment with video work and it achieves success through innovation, shock or a new slant on life; Rovner succeeds because her work is a 21st century interpretation of painting or drawing, they are complex but simple and […]
Adding to the display of Latin American art in London at the Lloyds Club, the White Cube Gallery in St James has the first exhibition in London by the Argentinian artist Christian Roso. Christian was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1982 and now lives and works in Vienna and Los Angeles. His clean restrained […]
Underground is the new place to go for culture and art, making use of engineered spaces, particularly when their original uses are now redundant. Munich has its the Kunstbau – an underground gallery created in 1994 in a concrete cavern left empty when the Königsplatz subway station was built – and Westminster underground station in […]
Art today comes in so many forms, whether full gallery installations or using modern materials such as plexiglass that is a joy to see an exhibition that celebrates the importance of painting as a medium and technique for contemporary art. Rook and Raven has sprung out of its gallery in Rathbone Place in London into […]
The German artist Paul Schwer (b.1951) has his first solo show in London in the gallery at Pi Artworks, where even the floor is painted white to create a full three dimensional canvas for art installations. Schwer has created installations in a number of German cities, not without controversy. His artwork “Home” which hung over […]
New London Architecture (NLA) has a new model of future developments in London. Paul Harrison and John Wood have created a model of a different city in their sculpture “A Film about a City” as part of their exhibition “An Almost Identical Copy” in London. A surreal of buildings have the fun of wooden building […]
Centre Point will forever be linked with the “Swinging Sixties” in London. The 33 storey office tower, designed by the architects Richard Seifert and Partners, was built between 1961 and 1966 and was notorious for remaining empty until 1975 due to property economics at the time and the aspiration of the developer to let the […]
If you google “Never Mind the Bollards”, you find that it has a musical history. It’s a book – a guide to England’s Rock and Roll Landmarks – and also a musical installation in 2012 with steel bollards with different tones in Chinatown Manhattan in collaboration with Neil Nisbet for Make Music New York 2012. […]
London as a world city can never stand still. While it is has an immense history to respect, it has to continually develop and improve, or it will die. London is the economic powerhouse of the UK and its future prosperity is essential for the future for the whole of the UK. New London Architecture […]
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