The Whitechapel Gallery was one of several museums and galleries which announced its closure for an indefinite time on Tuesday night so sadly, there is no opportunity for visitors to see the excellent series of exhibitions through the different gallery spaces until the current crisis has resolved itself. It seems a great shame, albeit understandable, […]
The front of Claridges Hotel is all decorated for Christmas. At the rear, in Brook’s Mews, construction hoardings, workers and lorries suggest building works are going on. Further down are two galleries, Maddox on the left and Ben Brown on the right. Enter Ben Brown and go down the steps and you enter almost a […]
Grafton Street is the northen extension of Dover Street, turning the corner towards Bond Street with No 24 built in 1789 as the London residence of the Marquis of Salisbury. Substantially altered over the years, it achieved fame in the early 20th century when Helena Rubinstein opened her first Salon de Beaute designed by the […]
What a contradictory climate Texas must have. At the moment, it is currently coping with the flooding disaster from the rainfall of almost biblical proportions caused by Hurricane Harvey; at other times it has to cope with immense desert dust-storms, as do other American states such as Kansas, shown in John Gerrard’s simulation of a […]
Is the area between Piccadilly Circus and Carnaby Street, on the edge of Soho in London, becoming the new area for art galleries as former warehouse and manufacturing buildings are discovered and renovated, providing light, airy, flexible spaces only five minutes away from the more traditional locations around Cork Street and Bond Street in Mayfair? […]
"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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