Heads slowly turn towards and away from each other, bodies rise from the black murky water, turning from grainy, black and white, unidentifiable shadows of themselves until we can see their full identity in high definition colour, while the artist himself floats submerged in water, something which challenges possibility. Bill Viola, who had an exhibition […]
It’s a little of a shock to enter through the doors into the pitch black and have to grope your way to find the room beyond, but that is how this exhibition ‘Life Death Rebirth’ starts. Beyond, the dark room is dark except for the moving image of a naked man slowly rising up through […]
Street art inside St Paul’s Cathedral. Shock, horror! A bold image of a mother and child, a 21st century interpretation of Mary, mother of Jesus, catches visitors by surprise in one of the transepts. It is perhaps unexpected to find modern and contemporary artworks within the majestic historic architecture of St Paul’s Cathedral, this most […]
Multi-storey car parks in London used to be great cash cows for their owners and operators. Car drivers would drive around trying to find spaces at any cost, such was the demand. The congestion charge, improvements in public transport and a renaissance in cycling put paid to that and now car parks are a dying […]
"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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