Despite his name, Hamish Fulton is a London born-artist (1946), but he left the city, its buildings, its noise, pollution and its chaos behind him in his career as a ‘walking artist’, exploring landscapes across the world which are recorded in his exhibition ‘A Decision to Choose Only Walking’ on show earlier in the year […]
The entrance door and window are frozen over with snow…..what is happening inside? A quick check on the text on the window and googling on the mobile phone tell you that…yes this is open; you can enter, before the Christmas lights are lit up in Oxford Street, with lots more streets to follow. Inside, the […]
Initially, when you see Justin Mortimer’s work “Zuma”, you think of Jerome Lagarrigue’s work blasting out of the walls of Lazarides Rathbone. Further examination of Mortimer’s work reveals more sophistication and a wider variety of situations than the explosive subversive riots shown by Lagarrigue. Both are near contemporaries with Mortimer born in 1970 and Lagarrigue born three years […]
In 2014, fire ripped through the Glasgow School of Art destroying Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s iconic art nouveau library in which Glasgow artist Nathan Coley (born 1967) no doubt spent many hours when he studied at the Glasgow School of Art between 1985 and 1989: “We were in Paris, and had just finished lunch when my brother messaged […]
Fletcher Priest Architect’s scheme for Sedley Place in London, completed in 2006, replaced the existing buildings with a mixed-use 10,000 sq m development of three buildings which successfully increased the floor area, created a new public”pocket-square” and improved the pedestrian connection from the buzz of Oxford Street to the relative calm of Woodstock Street. Different […]
"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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