A short walk along the riverside from Doon Street at Waterloo and, rising in front, you discover an immense timber head on one of the old jetties, the face staring out across the River Thames, in the background of which multi-coloured ribbons create an arch going out into the river on a second jetty. Together […]
It almost makes you want to give up and throw your smartphone into the River Thames, such is the quality of the finalists on show in the Bargehouse for the 2018 Blueprint Architectural Awards . The textures, the shadows, the contrast between black and white, showing different aspects of architecture, urbanisation and the impact on […]
Crumbling concrete, powdering plaster, rusty steelwork, peeling paint and boarded-up windows, yet only a few minutes from the swinging cranes and energy of redevelopment projects on the south bank of London. This is the Bargehouse at the Oxo Tower – the decaying industrial building which is currently showing the pop-up exhibition “Exhibit Here Art Maze”. […]
If the grey hulking mass of the former Central St Martin’s Building in Southampton Row, London has ghosts of its former students and staff walking through the empty rooms, left almost as they were when the doors were closed and the School moved to its magnificent new building at King’s Cross, then they would be […]
In his series of photographic images, “The World After the Humans” Luis Enguita imagines modernist buildings which have been abandoned by humans in perfect state, and now enjoyed by butterflies and penguins. Enguita is one of the artists on display at “Shaped in Mexico” which has been showing new art from Mexico. While START displayed new […]
"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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