French artist Daniel Buran (born 1938) has filled the ground floor of the Lisson Gallery in Lisson Street in London with his installation “PILE UP: High Reliefs. Situated Works”. Brightly coloured, different arrangements of bold, three-dimensional shapes, with his trademark stripes, are set on vertical mirrors that change in perspective as the viewer walks around […]
Standing 7-metres (21 ft) tall, the immense male torso, with its organs partially exposed, faces across to the Lloyds Building, designed by Richard Rogers which too has its organs exposed, albeit in a different way in the distribution of its building services. The cleverly-located “Temple” by Damien Hirst is one of the centrepieces of this […]
The long ramp from the city is guarded by a huge dog, protecting and guiding strangers down to the entrance around which are towers of stone and titanium like the protective armour of an armadillo. On the other side facing the river, a moat provides protection, with mystical mists and fiery flames blasting upwards to […]
At long last, the reconfigured Tottenham Court underground station designed by Hawkins Brown has its new southern entrance and the new public square around Centre Point will open later this year. The new entrance has colourful geometric artworks on the new entrances by Daniel Buren that has gives a subtle reference to Eduardo Paolozzi’s 1984 […]
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