Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Munich art firm Editions Schellman, Fifty Are Better Than One displays four floors of art editions from Schellman’s archives at Phillips in London, to be auctioned to benefit the Ars Publicata project, with connections between the art inside and the exterior environment of Berkeley Square and the surrounding Mayfair streets. […]
Towering above the room, the ballerinas appear to have the delicacy of glass Christmas baubles which break all too easily, yet are solid and made of hard steel. Like glass baubles, their curves create reflections everywhere, of visitors as they move around them, of the lights which project onto them and of the paintings on the […]
Outdated, but perfect and unused vacuum cleaners with brand names of “Celebrity” and “Convertible” stand to attention or hang in fluorescent-lit boxes alongside advertising photographs, while intricate reflective stainless steel model railway engines and carriages encase American whiskey, giant eggs in a bowl have sexual innuendoes, basketballs floating in perfect balance are set against photographs […]
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 […]
1 in 11 is a unique partnership between UNICEF, the FC Barcelona Foundation and Reach out to Asia (ROTA) to use the world-wide popularity of sport, especially football, along with education to enable every child to have the chance he or she deserves. It is estimated that 1 in 11 primary age children across the […]
How do you camouflage a warship? The traditional technique of blending natural colours and textures is difficult given the number of different backgrounds warships will be seen against. Norman Wilkinson, a marine painter, invented a different solution in the first world war – effectively doing the opposite and making the camouflage stand out in a […]
"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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