It’s January, with a new year and a new decade and Islington is awash with curators, artists and collectors flocking towards the Business Design Centre for this year’s London Art Fair. Will the new certainty on Brexit damp down collectors or will it give them new encouragement for a brighter and better and future – […]
It’s January and the start of the 2017 art cycle with the London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre in Islington. Now in its 29th year, the Fair presents galleries showing work from modern artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi (“Richard Rogers as Newton”) and Alexander Calder (“The Yellow Shock Absorber”) plus artists such as Picasso and Joan […]
Towers of computer cables and accessories become works of art, reinforcing the potential to re-use the electrical, computer and mobile phone connections that modern society discards, in part designed by computer companies to have a limited life and with a cable for one device not connecting into another, often even from the same company. Thus […]
Imagine living in London in the latter half of the 19th century. It must have been a great place to live and experience the city growing and developing with new residential areas, new railway stations and new exhibition halls to cement London’s position as a major international centre for design and technology, using the most […]
"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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