In 2017, after 20 years, the Wilkinson Gallery in Vyner Street near Bethnal Green closed as the owners went their separate ways. Fortunately, the gallery space was taken over by Steve Shave’s Modern Art, as a counterpoint to his more industrial space opposite St Luke’s Church in Old Street. The simple modern two story building, […]
Map in hand, exploring the streets of Bethnal Green: the first floor of a traditional pub, hidden floors of old warehouses, purpose-built spaces created as planning gain (having demolished a number of artists’ studios) and a purpose-built building among the industrial buildings and taxi-repair workshops of the East End of London. Coming to an end […]
Vyner Street in the east end of London is full of warehouse buildings, apparently mostly dating from redevelopment in the 1930’s and now occupied by a variety of uses including car repairs, wholesale flower merchants, artist and theatre studios, architects offices, furniture workshops and art galleries, with old pubs like the Victory somehow surviving at […]
"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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