The street is dark, but lights can be seen through a few of the windows in the tall apartment block, while friends linger in dim light on the staircase. Nearby, looters have been at work, helping themselves to an unprotected jewellery store and young people are sitting, chatting, smoking and drinking of the steps of the […]
Canada, as we know it today, was established in 1867 when the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia joined together, to be followed by other provinces and territories. Two exhibitions in London celebrate the 150th anniversary of this event, looking at different aspects of Canadian nationalism and identity through art. The Canadian flag […]
One of Canada’s best young artists, Andrew Salgado’s portraits are layered and full of images that deconstructs and reconstructs the identity of his portraits. In one of his early pictures, “Schismatics” from 2006, the sitter is breaking down into pixels all over his face except his eyes, and it is the eyes of Andrew Salgado’s portraits which draw the viewer […]
Initially there is just blackness. As eyes adjust, two bridges cross over each other above the muddy river bank. In the darkness of the night, one road is well-lit by a relentless grid of street-lights, so strong that that they almost obliterate the lights of the solitary car crossing over it. Below, the other bridge […]
Imagine London before London, when today’s city of office blocks, department stores, shops, restaurants, galleries and palaces was marshland or jungle around the river into which several streams flowed through the roots of the dense impenetrable vegetation which covered the land on which prehistoric animals roamed searching for food. Carefully lifting and removing the thick […]
Canada House in London’s Trafalgar Square has had a chequered history. It was originally built between 1824 and 1827 as two separate buildings for the Union Club and the Royal College of Physicians to designs of Sir Robert Smirke, the architect of the British Library and King’s College London. The Canadian government acquired the Union […]
"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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