The light filters down from the rooflights through the grid of roughly-hewn old timber beams and joists. This is not the shiny skyscraper architecture of downtown London, nor is it out in the suburbs and, indeed tall new residential blocks are appearing all around. In London, where does downtown start and uptown start? Given its location […]
Phillips in London has its impressive modern glass eight-story building in Grosvenor Square. In New York, it’s competitor Christie’s is the one with the large building. Phillips does not have that opportunity, but it makes up for it with its location, in prime downtown space in Park Avenue, which last week had Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Work: Zodiac Heads” […]
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 […]
Describing himself as a drawer of pictures a dreamer of drainbows, Todd James is a self-taught street artist from New York who started tagging the New York City Subway system under the name REAS when he was young. His work has a vibrant colourful graphic cartoon-like quality and he has designed logos for the Beastie […]
Two imaginative projects in New York show how wasted industrial sites can be transformed into landscaped public areas for the community to enjoy. In Manhatten, the third phase of the High Line has now opened to the public. The half-mile section – stretching from 30th Street around the Hudson Rail Yard to 34th Street – […]
"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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