The Lisson Gallery is located in the “edgy” multi-cultural area to the north of the A40 flyover at Edgeware Road in two purpose-designed complexes in Bell Street which are cultural anchors for the area around them as it goes through regeneration. Indeed a former pub, laundry and telephone box immediately adjacent to the modern gallery […]
I M Pei’s Pyramid at the Musée du Louvre has more than proved its value. Opened in 1989 for planned visitor numbers of 4 million per annum, it now has to cope with almost 10 million though it struggles to do so, while the main courtyard area provides an important public space for Paris during […]
Surrounded by the building sites of the Old Street area regeneration, BEERS London has established its art gallery in a building which now seems restrained in contrast to the tall blocks emerging everywhere around it and internally is a simple cool simple white box in for art. The Gallery works with emerging and established artists […]
An unexpected find in the fast-changing area of Old Street, London, is The Ceviche Old Street Gallery which displays a changing exhibition of the work of Peru’s best contemporary artists – Miguel Aguirre, Fernando Bryce, Alice Wagner, Mariano Vivanco and others on the walls of the Ceviche Old Street restaurant where you can enjoy Peruvian contemporary […]
Vienna is famous for its historic architecture, with notable buildings by the Secessonist architects Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Otto Wagner and others. There are other surprising buildings such as the gasometers in Simmering and surprisingly, in the leafy Arenbergpark, two immense concrete second world war Flak towers rising above the trees, among the largest […]
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 […]
The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester sits in Whitworth Park, a valuable green lung now surrounded by the expanded gritty urban environment of this area of Manchester. The original building, completed in 1908 to the design of J W Beaumont in a romantic Jacobean style, has now received a new modern extension which has enabled it […]
The area north of New Oxford Street in London, around Eastcastle Street, is developing as a centre for art galleries, spreading west from Cork Street and north from Soho. In 2012, the Carroll Fletcher Gallery opened to designs by Allsop Gollings Architects. The galleries are ubiquitous white boxes, but what makes this gallery are the […]
Walking today through the centre of Woking in Surrey, it is hard to recognise that the town has a long history, having been the site of a 8th century monastery called Wochingas with a mention of the town in the Doomsday Book of 1086. Its recent history revolves around H.G.Wells who wrote “The War of […]
The area between Angel and Hoxton in London is a mass of building sites as this area is gradually redeveloped, taking advantage of the canals which provide fingers of water onto which many of the new residential apartments will face. In amongst this redevelopment are two old, but transformed, warehouse buildings, Nos 14 and 16 […]
"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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