China is a country which is trying to balance tradition and heritage with its future technological and cultural development. Often the two clash in a way which we in the west should not find surprising – we had the same complexities and questions after the Second World War when many old urban areas from Coventry […]
At the same time as President Trump is announcing new USA tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports, raising the tensions in trade between the two countries, Ed Moses and Qin Feng are bridging across the cultures and the generations at Blain|Southern in London. In the cool white double-height spaces overlooking Hanover Street, paintings and ink […]
It seems astonishing, but while there are an amazing number of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, many of them in the Royal Collection and being displayed this year, the 600th anniversary of his death, there are apparently less than 20 of his paintings in existence, which might explain the hype around the controversial sale of […]
"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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