It is over 80 years since the neoclassical Duveen galleries opened at Tate Britain, purposely designed on a grand scale for the display of sculpture. Today, the galleries provide a foil to the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, both providing a scale that enables artists to install interactive contemporary art displays that engage with a […]
Boxing comes to the heart of Mayfair. You cannot imagine two very different worlds, but on stepping through the door of Waddington Custot in Cork Street, you leave behind white-painted gallery spaces and step into another more gritty world, enclosed and hidden from the street. Ahead of you is a long horizontal vitrine ‘Boxkampf für […]
Chairs are piled on top of tables and each other to create the side of a mountain. Performers (dressed appropriately) climb the chairs with buckets of water and sit there until they create a waterfall. It all looks quite precarious, but it was meticulously planned. What is performance art compared to performing arts? The latter […]
What do you do with a series of immense underground concrete oil tanks that once fed one of London’s mightiest power stations? Do you blow them up? Do you cover them over and forget them for ever? If you are Tate Modern, building a new extension above and alongside, you look creatively at these spaces, […]
"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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