In deepest Peckham is one of London’s more unusual art venues, the upper floors of a disused carpark. Up a hidden concrete staircase, through a door into another staircase – pink this time (an artwork by Simon Whybray), out onto the rooftop floor with the old yellow parking bay markings still evident and now caught […]
The US State Department created controversy when, despite deep budget cuts, it spent $400,000 on John Baldessari’s sculpture “Camel Contemplating a Needle”, representing the difficulty the wealthy have in entering the kingdom of heaven, for the new American embassy in Islamabad in Pakistan. The price was apparently discounted, but even Donald Trump couldn’t resist commenting […]
Imagine you found an old disused house with thirty two boxes scattered around the different rooms containing apparently-meaningless objects which had been collected by the previous occupant. What would you do – call the local refuse collection team, take the boxes to the local charity shop, or keep and care for them? If you are an artist or a […]
The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the new contemporary art museum located in the developing Museum Park in Miami opened last year and (at last) provides Miami with an international quality museum setting for its own collection of contemporary art, for international art projects and galleries in which to house international loan exhibitions, such as […]
"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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