One of the joys of visiting the Venice Biennale is the number of exhibitions of contemporary art on show in historic buildings that you might not otherwise see, often located down canals you would not normally visit. It is as much an architectural discovery as an exploration of new art. The Gallery Edel Assanti has given […]
Twentieth century urban planning has not been good to Edgware Road in London – the start of the busy road north that joins to the AI and thence to Scotland, when transport planners ruled the roost and created the flyover high above the road taking traffic out west, eventually to the M40 and thence to […]
Hidden within the 18th century interior in Dover Street in Mayfair, something strange is going on. The architecture has been supressed and – look what happens when you do Yoga! This is how you end up – twisted and contorted, with a touch of colour…. American artist Carol Bove (born 1971) twists, turns and folds […]
An extensive exhibition of drawings, ceramics and sculptures covering 40 years of work by Ken Price bring the vibrant colours and shapes from southern California and Mexico to brighten up the dark wet winter days of London. One of the most important ceramic artists of the 20th century, American artist Ken Price took influences from […]
Imagine London before London, when today’s city of office blocks, department stores, shops, restaurants, galleries and palaces was marshland or jungle around the river into which several streams flowed through the roots of the dense impenetrable vegetation which covered the land on which prehistoric animals roamed searching for food. Carefully lifting and removing the thick […]
The gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley are watched over by Henry Moore’s bronze “King and Queen” (1953). This autumn, over 60 additional sculptures are keeping the King and Queen company, in the 18th annual “Surrey Sculpture Society Trail”. A wide variety of garden sculptures, all for sale, provides a treasure trail that […]
"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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