Somehow you think that if an artist can persuade the art establishment to award him the Turner Prize in 2001 with a single light bulb that turned on and off that he should be in the current government helping to move the country forward in the mad, chaotic and uncertain world of Brexit. A light […]
There is a long cultural link between works and art. Before people could read and write, they were creating images in caves, Egyptian hieroglyphs used images and symbols to create letters and words, medieval manuscripts had beautiful illuminated images within them and stained glass windows told the stories of the Bible to people who could […]
Standing 7-metres (21 ft) tall, the immense male torso, with its organs partially exposed, faces across to the Lloyds Building, designed by Richard Rogers which too has its organs exposed, albeit in a different way in the distribution of its building services. The cleverly-located “Temple” by Damien Hirst is one of the centrepieces of this […]
A Ford Focus on a rooftop suddenly starts up, the doors open, the the lights flash and the radio plays; a white piano suddenly starts playing; you fight your way to daylight through a room of white balloons and then fight back to the exit following the signs on the ceiling. Adrian Searle in the […]
The old town in Edinburgh has many narrow passages and sets of steps that connect the High Street down to Princes Gardens. Generally these are dark, mysterious and have occasional surprises. One such surprise is to find yourself walking on an artwork designed by the artist Martin Creed. The Scotsman steps were originally built as […]
"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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