Driving down a bumpy narrow lane in the Sussex countryside, you arrive at the farm. You know you are in the countryside by the smells and sounds of farm activity; it is not an air-conditioning unit that you hear humming in the background, but a milking machine. The buildings around the farmhouse, Charleston, have just […]
I have to admit that the Bernard Jacobson Gallery opposite Fortnum & Masons remains one of my favourite new galleries in London. While the building itself is quietly modernist, with ground floor rents in London at a premium, the gallery has just enough fully glazed double height frontage to provide a taster for its exhibitions providing […]
It’s a busy week in London for art visitors who would have leapt round from Jeff Koons’ exhibition at Alime Rech’s new Gallery to Berkeley Square where there was an opportunity to bid for Jeff Koons’ “Dom Perignon BALLOON VENUS”, from an edition of 650 for an estimate of only £25,000 to £35,000, 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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