Two major exhibitions on contemporary Chinese art are being held in the UK this autumn. The first is the exhibition of Chinese art from the 1970’s until now at the award-winning Whitworth Gallery in Manchester; the second is the Ai Weiwei exhibtion which opens in September in the Royal Academy in London. There is of course […]
Manchester is achieving a social and economic renaissance with a multi-faceted strategy that includes science and innovation in partnership with its universities and culture through new arts facilities, building on the successful extension of the Manchester Art Gallery designed by Hopkins Architects and completed over a decade ago and HOME, the new £25m arts centre […]
The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester sits in Whitworth Park, a valuable green lung now surrounded by the expanded gritty urban environment of this area of Manchester. The original building, completed in 1908 to the design of J W Beaumont in a romantic Jacobean style, has now received a new modern extension which has enabled it […]
Born in three different decades, Heinz Mack (born 1931) and Isa Genzken (born 1948) both developed their artistic careers in the period after the Second World War while Thomas Schütte (born 1954) is from a more contemporary generation. Work from the three artists has been on display in exhibitions in London and Manchester which illustrate […]
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is in the process of a major capital investment plan to radically improve and modernise its estate. The £55 million new Business School and Student Hub, opened in 2012, was the university’s most significant new building project since the 1960s, replacing an outdated building elsewhere in the city. Designed by Feilden […]
"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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