There has been an invasion of sheep at the Pompidou Centre in Malaga. I guess they must be artistic sheep as they seem to enjoy looking at the artworks around them by various artists including Joan Miro and Peter Doig. In some ways, it must be easier curating a relatively small space when you can […]
Russian art is such an important part of world culture, that anything that raises awareness of the art and the artists can only be a good thing, so that we can appreciate it more. The current exhibitions at the St Petersburg State Russian Museum in Malaga show what a masterful and forward-thinking collaboration it was […]
Many congratulations to the Contemporary Art Centre in Malaga which celebrated its 15th birthday in February this year. Established by the city authorities in the former Wholesalers Market constructed in 1939 by the architect Luis Gutiérrez Soto, the Contemporary Art Centre Malaga has been part of a successful strategy to bring new art galleries and […]
The crystal glass cube “El Cubo”; has been transformed into a multi-coloured chequerboard with the sunlight shining through to project the colours downwards onto the white walls of the space below. Paris’ Centre Pompidou has arrived in Malaga with 6,000 sqm of space as part of the revitalisation of the port area, its first branch outside of France. The […]
The Romans were famous for their long straight roads, but this doesn’t seem to have applied in south west Spain. The port of Baelo Claudia was established by the Romans to trade in tuna and mackerel at a strategic location near the Straits of Gibraltar while the village of Cesares, perched at the top of […]
Malaga, birthplace of Pablo Picasso, has been developing as a major centre for the arts over the last 15 years with the opening of the Picasso Museum and the Centre for Contemporary Art in 2003 and the Museo Carmen Thyssen in 2011. This year will see two major new additions to its cultural life with the […]
A new canopy which takes structural inspiration both from the waves of the sea and the timber framework of boats provides a skeleton to the new cruise liner terminal in Malaga. The project has two parts; “Pier One” provides 55,000 sq m of new shopping, restaurants and underground parking around a new public area. “Pier […]
It is highly likely that you have never heard of the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. It is interesting to see how artists of the same generation can develop in different ways. Hilma af Klint is a contemporary of Picasso, which I guess is the reason for the Picasso Museum in Malaga to hold an […]
The Caminito, was built between 1901 and 1905 to move workers and materials between the El Chorro Falls and the Gaitanejo Falls on either side of Gaitanes Gorge. It was christened the Caminito del Rey, or King’s Pathway, after King Alfonso XIII walked along it in 1921 when he came to inaugurate the Conde del […]
"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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