Although it looks like an old traditional pub, apparently it is a relatively modern conversion of a former shop. If so, the transformation has been well done and The Reliance feels like it has been here for ever, not least because of the rickety wooden staircase that runs up the side of the building from […]
The Surrealism art movement with its imaginary worlds and creatures, often created by distorting everyday and illogical objects and scenes, developed in the early 1920’s by artists such as Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali and Max Ernst. Exploring the subconscious, there were feminist accusations that the movement often played to masculine stereotypes; on the other hand […]
Remember when, as a child, you used to create imaginary rooms from anything you could find. Perhaps you collected old wood and built a house in the garden or in the tree; perhaps you used the dining room table, piled chairs and other furniture around it and hung sheets or tablecloths over it to create […]
A long thin sliver of ground floor and basement, not much wider than a London alley, with windows on three sides facing onto a yard and out to the two adjacent streets. Rathbone Street and Newman Street, north of New Oxford Street in London. Not perhaps the most obvious space for an art gallery, given […]
The title of Saatchi’s new exhibition “Champagne Life” might conjure up images of bohemian dancing with champagne on the beach, but it is taken from one of Julia Wachel’s pictures which contrasts the lonely life of artists working creatively for all the hours of the day that they can in their cold Spartan studios with […]
“She Came to Stay” is a novel published by French author Simone de Beauvoir in 1943 as a fictional account of her and Jean-Paul Sartre‘s relationship with Olga and Wanda Kosakiewicz. Set in Paris on the eve of and during the Second World War, the novel explores many existentialist concepts such as freedom, angst and the other. Rook and […]
"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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