Three floors of Phillips in Berkeley Square are bursting with a dispirit selection of international contemporary art, looking out across the roadworks which surround the building. Cities never stand still! There is, interweaving through the different works, quite a strong theme linked to architecture, cities and design. Andreas Slominski’s ‘Windmuhle’ (windmill) looks slightly out […]
Be careful where you leave your car in case artists find it and take it over, with a 1953 VW beetle turned into a giant Beetle Sphere by Ichman Noor (now worth far more than the original car) or, in the case of an unregistered Fiat 500, having characteristic images applied over it by Tracy […]
Set against a backcloth of a dull grey winter’s day in London, NEW NOW at Phillips adds colour to Berkeley Square and the buildings around. Mainstream and new artists including Andy Warhol, Eva Aeppli, Kristof Kintera, Yasam Sasmazer, Glenn Kaino, Jonathan Monk, Nazar Bilyk, Egor Zigura, Oleg Pinchuk, Norbert Schwontkowski, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ai Weiwei […]
"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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