One of Fernardo Botero’s curvaceous women welcomes visitors to the classical Georgian building which is of course an illusion – a temporary façade erected every year in the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea for the annual art and antique fair Masterpiece. If there is a colour that subtlety predominates here it is red: […]
Hanging overhead is a huge explosion caught in time; flying clothes frozen in a split second. Here, in the centre of London, hundreds of shirts, trousers, socks, jumpers, skirts and other items of clothing that have been discarded by refugees arriving on Lesbos are hanging, caught in mid-flight, as the artist Arabella Dorman invites the […]
Scattered on the grassy lawns adjacent to the formal garden and fountains of Regent’s Park, with the backcloth of John Nash’s elegant regency terraces, a successful initiative of Frieze this summer was the sculpture park where a wide range of strange and wonderful sculpture was on display through the summer by artists including Eduardo Paolozzi, […]
"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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