London Clubs continue to prosper, with new ones continuing to open. The newest is also one of the oldest, the Learned Society of Extra Ordinary Objects, the Club Room and Gin Bar of which has popped up for the summer in Somerset House. The Learned Society was established in 1717, initially meeting in The Boar […]
The South Hall of the 19th century Covent Garden Market building has been filled with a billowing cloud of 100,000 balloons created by the French artist Charles Petillon and which stretches for 54 metres through the Hall and includes pulsing lights reinforcing its name “Heartbeat” – to represent the “beating heart” of this tourist attraction in Central London. […]
Arup has unveiled the latest installation in its annual design competition ‘No.8@Arup’ which encourages the design of innovative sculptural installations by emerging architectural practices for the atrium in Arup’s London office at No 8 Fitzroy Street. The theme for the third year of the competition is “Designing for People” and the winning entry the “Sentiment […]
As part of the public art programme for the new John Henry Brookes Building on the Headington Campus of Oxford Brookes University, a new artwork ‘Resounding’ by the Glasgow artist Annie Cattrell has recently been installed . Comprising over 300 coloured cast resin droplets hung on 425 cables, which enable the droplets to hang and […]
The Barbican Centre in London has red kayaks inside, outside and moving within it. Located in the aptly named “Curve”, ‘Slow Movement’ is a specially-designed installation with a kayak moving slowly along the floor of the 90m long space as if on water, with two videos running, one at each end of the space. 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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