What do you do with a series of immense underground concrete oil tanks that once fed one of London’s mightiest power stations? Do you blow them up? Do you cover them over and forget them for ever? If you are Tate Modern, building a new extension above and alongside, you look creatively at these spaces, […]
Victoria station in London s changing and the area around it is being transformed by Land Securities in a 50:50 joint venture with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for the 5.5 acre new development NOVA, Victoria, providing nearly 900,000 sq ft of mixed-use space in five buildings designed by PLP Architects, Benson + Forsyth, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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