Sometimes you just have to throw out the standard way of doing things and break the rules. Perfectly-lit white-walled galleries have their place, but some art needs an environment that is darker and more subtle, such as the current exhibition of the Korean artist Yun Hyong-keun hung on decaying brick walls in dark spaces of […]
It’s a bit of a shock! Ahead of you is a metal mesh fence and gate with chain and padlock, leading into a black and murky darkness. Gently, you manage to open the gate, and enter into the blackness, coming out into the dark space in film extracts are showing on tv monitors, flat screens […]
While graffiti is illegal in China, there appears to be a small but growing movement, according to Clarissa Sebag Montefiore of the BBC. It will be interesting to see if and how it develops. If China did have a vibrant street art scene, you could imagine that Li Tianbing would be one of the artists. […]
In 1789 the Navy Board in London moved into its new offices in Somerset House, then just completed, where it remained until, merged into the Board of Admiralty, it moved out to Whitehall in 1873. At Somerset House, it had a link with the river that ran down to the sea from which the Navy […]
Spread across three galleries in Zurich, London and Hong Kong, we see new works from Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi. Initially, you might think that London has lost out, because the largest works are in the other galleries, but in fact we have a case of ‘small is beautiful’ and the exhibition of his work in […]
Two major exhibitions on contemporary Chinese art are being held in the UK this autumn. The first is the exhibition of Chinese art from the 1970’s until now at the award-winning Whitworth Gallery in Manchester; the second is the Ai Weiwei exhibtion which opens in September in the Royal Academy in London. There is of course […]
"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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