An immense amount of Welsh slate rises up outside the Serpentine Gallery, supported on astonishingly slender steel rods, almost twig-like in their scale. Minimalist, as you would expect from a Japanese architect, Junya Ishigami’s huge roof of many tens of thousands of tonnes of slate tiles, for which AECOM were the engineers and project […]
The historic old Magazine building which is now the Serpentine Sackler has been taken over by German film-maker, artist, writer and digital innovator Hito Steyerl. The rooflights which normally allow daylight to flow down into the spaces have been covered over and the building is now a series of dark spaces where you can make […]
From a distance, this year’s Serpentine Pavilion by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo looks a little like a series of dark wickerwork walls, rather than a pavilion. Inside is different, with reflections from the shallow pool of water and from the polished stainless steel ceiling that both protects from the weather and also visually doubles 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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