Design Boom reports on Anish Kapoor’s latest sculpture – a 35ft diameter “sky mirror” at the AT+T Stadium at Dallas. I hope that he worked out the sunrays and doesn’t have any of the same problems of the Walkie Talkie in London. Not exactly a new idea, but rarely done on this scale. This weekend, the Sunday Times also reported on Kapoor’s finances over the last year – still confirming his position as one of Brtain’s wealthiest artists.
Ian Caldwell
"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