You arrive at what feels a derelict wasteland as you walk down the stairs from West Silvertown station on the DRL, with a shiny huge tin of Golden Syrup advertising the Tate and Lyle building in the distance. Easily missed, because the DLR runs so close to its façade that you could almost put your […]
Adjacent to the restaurant/bar El Cocinero, the other part of the project which transforms the former cooking oil factory in Vedado in Havana is La Fabrica del Arte Cubano, where a wide variety of arts, drinking and eating all combine together into a fantastically vibrant place, open from 8pm to 3am and where, at 11 […]
Vienna is famous for its historic architecture, with notable buildings by the Secessonist architects Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Otto Wagner and others. There are other surprising buildings such as the gasometers in Simmering and surprisingly, in the leafy Arenbergpark, two immense concrete second world war Flak towers rising above the trees, among the largest […]
At the Garching Research Park, seen through the trees across a small river from the Mathematics and Informatics Building of the Technical University Munich, is a tall sculptural structure. In fact, it is the Oskar-von-Miller Tower, a tower designed by by Deubzer Konig + Rimmel Architects to house metrological instruments for university research. The tower […]
One of the most unlikely areas to find international art galleries might be an industrial estate. But, why not? Industrial estates are full of a mixture of businesses often including other creative organisations, in joinery, metalwork or marble, or kitchen interiors or pehaps web-design, and can provide large high-volume inexpensive spaces, difficult to find or afford in […]
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? […]
Continuing the theme of photography of crumbling derelict buildings or structures (see the previous entry on Detroit), Matt Emmett who calls himself a “Forgotten Heritage Photographer” has been shortlisted for this year’s Eisa Maestro photographic competition for his photographs of neglected, spooky, empty decaying buildings and industrial sites which can be seen on his website. […]
Following the last two articles on industrial landscapes in South Africa and Yorkshire, the Photographer’s Gallery in London will on the 17th of January open an exhibition on the work of the American photographer David Lynch depicting empty evocative, haunting industrial scenes from Germany, Poland, New York, New Jersey and England; buildings left deserted for […]
"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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