As you entered, you faced a huge rocking structure with strands of barbed wire, a structure full of meaning – the rocking chair of Melvin Edwards’ grandmother Coco, wire fencing used in farm enclosures to keep animals apart, barbed wire used on top of prison compound walls, in South Africa, a symbol of the segregation […]
The ground floor gallery spaces in Native Land’s new development, Burlington Gate, await their tenants, albeit one is being used for a short-term display of new artists, currently Jack Killick’s Collapse II in a collaboration between Native Land and the Royal Academy of Arts. In this difficult climate for retail spaces generally, how long will […]
"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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