In the staircase and up to the first floor at the Marlborough Gallery above Lars Fisk’s exhibition ‘Wattle & Daub’, is a splendid series of prints by 20th and 21st century artists Victor Pasmore, Ken Kiff, Bridget Riley, Louise Bourgeois, Grayson Perry and Beatriz Milhazes, covering the last 40 years and showing the variety and […]
Remember when, as a child, you used to create imaginary rooms from anything you could find. Perhaps you collected old wood and built a house in the garden or in the tree; perhaps you used the dining room table, piled chairs and other furniture around it and hung sheets or tablecloths over it to create […]
London has re-discovered its rooftops. It started with the “Post Office Tower” and disappeared when the revolving restaurant was closed, then re-emerged when “Tower 42″ (formerly the NatWest Tower) opened up the area around its lift shafts as a bar linked to a restaurant several floors below. Then came the “Gherkin” with its rooftop space […]
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 […]
Three different artists – Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois and Nam June Paik – display their perspectives on modern life. The Tate is holding a major exhibition “The Image as Burden”showing the work of Marlene Dumas (born 1953), the South African artist who now lives in Amsterdam. Her work is challenging for the viewer – her […]
"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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