Despite his name, Hamish Fulton is a London born-artist (1946), but he left the city, its buildings, its noise, pollution and its chaos behind him in his career as a ‘walking artist’, exploring landscapes across the world which are recorded in his exhibition ‘A Decision to Choose Only Walking’ on show earlier in the year […]
In the last decades of the 1890′s, Shoreditch, as now, was an area of change. The railways brought new connections and new opportunities for warehouses, which together displaced great swathes of housing in the area. In 1890, the Lipton family built a storage warehouse and distribution centre adjacent to Shoreditch Station, then part of the […]
It is December in London. Out in the countryside, it is a cold evening with a dark winter sky, which at times turns green, and the chilly forbidding landscape appears empty except for the tall shapes of trees, some solitary, some in groups, reaching up so that they touch the darkness above them. But wait, […]
Graphite is an amazing material – at one end we all have some at home in our HB pencils; on the other, when compressed under high pressures, it can become one of the most expensive and luxurious gems on earth – a diamond. If you have ever visited a diamond mine, you will realise what […]
On the lawn in front on the stone neoclassical façade is a chicken shed, a rather strange find in the centre of London, but closer inspection reveals it’s not actually a chicken shed, it’s a cast of the space inside the shed, a new sculpture from Rachel Whiteread as she continues to record buildings through […]
Breathing new life into historic collections is a theme that brings new audiences into historic buildings and museums. Versailles does it on a larger scale than most, as sculptors such as Anish Kapoor in 2015 take over and transform the gardens. But, here in London, Marc Quinn has done the impossible – added more to […]
"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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