With the clouds of coronavirus circling round the world, museums, galleries, theatres, libraries and other buildings are closed and shuttered, their great architecture hidden from view. Earlier this year, in what now seems to be another time and place, Candida Höfer’s technically superb photographs on show at Ben Brown Fine Arts highlighted the grand, intricate and […]
Dora Maar has perhaps not received the recognition she deserved due to her relationship with Pablo Picasso, one of whose many portraits of her is on show at Tate Modern’s extensive reappraisal of her work, from her change in direction and identity from the artist-painter Henrietta Theodora Markovitch to the photographer Dora Maar in 1932 […]
The entrance may today look relatively grand, though perhaps a little unusual in the expensive property world of Mayfair, squashed as it is between two taller buildings, but 13 Carlos Place was once the brick back wall of the squash courts of the rather grand house at 47 Grosvenor Square built in 1924 to designs […]
In the background you can hear the muffled noise of drilling, but what do you do if you have the builders in? Sotheby’s is fortunate in that it has several entrances, so while it might not be as prestigious as Bond Street, George Street to the east provides alternative entrances while the building work is […]
Havana came to Berkeley Square earlier in May, when Che Guavara was looking out across Berkeley Square through Phillips’ windows as part of their auction of 20th century photography. In addition to Rene Burri’s 1963 photograph, there were also photographs of Habana Libre and Cerca Crespo in 2002 by Desire Dolron. There were many great […]
The 1960’s and 1970’s in Glasgow was an era of incredible optimism and change. Whole swathes of old 19th century tenements were being demolished and replaced with new concrete blocks of flats to give families modern accommodation with kitchens, indoor bathrooms and central heating. Speed and fast forms of construction were key to solving some […]
Large areas of London have been destroyed, and burnt-out stonework and empty windows stand ruined against the sky with views to St Paul’s Cathedral which survived the Blitz in 1942 and represented the spirit of the British people during the darkest hours of the Second World War as recorded by photographer Wolfgang Suschitzky whose earlier photographs […]
"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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