Shoppers walking out through the North End entrance to the Whitgift Centre in Croydon probably think that the artwork above their head is just an advert for Chanel perfume, a very appropriate view as the artist which it commemorates started out in the advertising industry. Simon Freeborough’s work “Pure Transparency” has a double meaning as […]
It’s a busy week for new art in London, with the London Art Biennale in Chelsea and the rough old basement spaces of Victoria House in Bloomsbury again being taken over by over 100 new and emerging international artists for “The Other Art Fair” presented by Saatchi Art. How do the artists see architecture and cities? Representations […]
The music is daring you to dance, with the rhythm that you hear on the streets of Havana; the old doors have paintwork peeling off, like most of the buildings in Havana; and there are colourful posters and artwork by street artist Ben Eine – all of this contributes to the atmosphere of Casa Havana, London’s newest restaurant/bar, […]
"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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