PACE in Burlington Gardens is one of my favourite gallery spaces in London (PACE also has one of the best gallery spaces under the High Line in New York). I always love the proportions and the juxtaposition of the cast iron columns in the space, always painted white, against the artworks on the walls, […]
The white walls of PACE in Burlington Gardens in London have been taken over by the black and white graphical works of the young American artist Adam Pendleton who, in 2012, was the youngest artist (then 28 years old) to sign with the PACE Gallery since the 1970′s, with the white columns of the gallery […]
It is so white that you feel absorbed by it, and it feels a jarring insult to the all-embracing whiteness to be wearing coloured clothes that disturb the peace of the space. Really we should be dressed in white as we enter. Look closer at the squares on the walls and they having flowing […]
Is the area between Piccadilly Circus and Carnaby Street, on the edge of Soho in London, becoming the new area for art galleries as former warehouse and manufacturing buildings are discovered and renovated, providing light, airy, flexible spaces only five minutes away from the more traditional locations around Cork Street and Bond Street in Mayfair? […]
"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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