If there is a theme, it seems to be birds, starting with John Baldessari’s large penguin that greets you as you arrive, then Kathleen Ryan’s figures which could be parrots sitting recycled street furniture, Tracy Emin’s monuments to birds which represent angels, but could also be devils (think of Alfred Hitchcock) and Elmgreen & Dragset‘s […]
The Francis Crick Institute at St Pancras is one of the world’s leading bio-medical research centres for research on the diagnosis and treatment of modern diseases. To do that, as the exhibition currently on show there demonstrates, scientists look for patterns which they can then break up and manipulate. Outside, like a symbol of the […]
Standing proudly as a sentinel outside the Francis Crick Institute at St Pancras, Conrad Shawcross’ five-metre high sculpture ‘Paradigm’ could be representative of many things – the paradigm shift in biomedical research which the Crick Institute aims to achieve, the paradigm shift that St Pancras has undergone from its original role in 1868 as the […]
Conrad Shawcross’s sculpture The Dappled Light of the Sun 2015 fills the entrance courtyard of the Royal Academy London and a substantial exhibition of his work is now on display at Victoria Miro’s gallery in Wharf Road. The exhibition focusses on maquettes for realised and proposed commisions that demonstrate Shawcross’s exploration of the artistic and sculptural potential 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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