The bold vibrantly- coloured geometric shapes contrast with the robust industrial structures and volumes of the gallery spaces at Stuart Shave/Modern Art in Helmet Row – architecture and art complementing each other. Whereas Do Ho Suh at Victoria Miro created facades, entrances, passages and staircases of buildings with all the intricate details of panelled joinery, […]
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 challenge was to design one of the largest buildings in the country for one of its most historic sites. In Portugal, the Government took the opportunity of its European Union Presidency in 1992 to construct a building to accommodate all the people involved in the Presidency and provide a long term cultural, conference 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 result of the international competition for an architect to work with The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the TR Warszawa Theatre on their new buildings in Warsaw has been announced. Thomas Phifer and Partners’ proposal was chosen out of 12 bidding architecture firms which included Henning Larsen Architects, UNStudio and Foster + […]
“Where Art Can Take You” is the campaign to transform the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The bold and recognisable existing building designed by Mario Botta opened in 1995 and was always a delight to visit, with its programme of changing exhibitions. It was however constrained by its size and is now closed […]
"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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