Museums, galleries and exhibition spaces have been falling like skittles, such has been the pace of closures over the past few days due to coronavirus. The latest is the Korean Cultural Centre (KCC) near Trafalgar Square, which, when I visited earlier in the week, was pretty deserted. The KCC does a great job of bringing […]
Outside through the window, the red of the London buses flash by; inside Zuza Golinska’s red rolls of carpet and Faycal Baghriche’s red-covered furled flags connect to the city outside, along with Jeremy Hutchison’s images of Mercedes car seats which, when opened up on the Balkan borders, had people inside trying to sneak across the […]
The builders are finishing the final pieces of work and the cleaners are tidying and polishing ahead of the arrival of London’s newest art gallery – the Canada House Gallery – which reopens later this week as part of the refurbishment of the 1827 Canada House in Trafalgar Square, originally designed by Robert Smirke, architect […]
"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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