Sculptures by Boaz Vaadia, Philippe Hiquily and Bryan Kneale stand in guard in front of the long neoclassical brick Chelsea façade that conceals the annual international art and antique fair, Masterpiece, larger and better than before with art, furniture and decorative items from the antique to the contemporary, including a stylish 1958 Riva Tritone speedboat, […]
The discrete door opens onto a derelict staircase with creaking timber treads, missing balusters and unfinished plaster walls, leading upwards to the first floor which is a space in transition; a mix of old and new with a plain concrete floor, strings of lights and timber joists overhead awaiting new plasterboard ceilings. But where are […]
Never has copper wire been used so imaginatively. The Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition displays over 100 items by the French-British sculptor and film-maker Alice Anderson, all entirely mummified and transformed in copper. The gallery staircase, a bottle of coke, windows frames, computer parts, ropes and a plethora of other objects, wrapped in copper wire, glisten […]
At the Cini Foundation in Venice in 2013, Marc Quinn exhibited five huge sea shells from his series “The Archaeology of Art” which, set against water, looked as if they had been washed ashore. At the White Cube Gallery in Bermondsey, London, the highly polished floors of the gallery take on the reflective character of […]
The entrance to the redeveloped area around the old Spitalfields Market is marked by the sculpture I Goat by Scottish sculptor Kenny Hunter, the winner of the Spitalfields Sculpture Prize 2010, which stands on top of a mound of packing crates and was inspired by Spitalfields’ social history. “Goats are associated with non-conformity and being […]
"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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