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. […]
It is fascinating to peep into the hidden world of an artist’s studio and see where he or she created their great work; sometimes they are tidy and clean, sometimes they are totally chaotic, with collections of things that inspire them, walls and floor splattered with paint and canvases or sculptures in various stages of […]
It’s a dull dark January night in Mayfair, but the lights shine brightly in Phillips in Berkeley Square with three floors of limited edition works by a huge variety of modern and contemporary artists from North America, Japan, Britain and Europe including Jan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Roy […]
Boxing comes to the heart of Mayfair. You cannot imagine two very different worlds, but on stepping through the door of Waddington Custot in Cork Street, you leave behind white-painted gallery spaces and step into another more gritty world, enclosed and hidden from the street. Ahead of you is a long horizontal vitrine ‘Boxkampf für […]
As railways expanded across Europe in the 19th century expansion, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin was built to designs of Friedrich Neuhaus in 1846/47 as the terminus of the Berlin-Hamburg railway. Today it remains one of the oldest railway terminus buildings in Germany and, like the Musee d’Orsey in Paris, has been given a new use as a modern art […]
Modern Art Oxford provides a foil to the more traditional and historic collections in this university city. It shows modern and contemporary art, often of international quality, in the former square room and stores of Hanley’s City Brewery which was originally built in 1892 and now provides a number of different semi-industrial spaces that enables […]
"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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