Remember when, as a child, you used to create imaginary rooms from anything you could find. Perhaps you collected old wood and built a house in the garden or in the tree; perhaps you used the dining room table, piled chairs and other furniture around it and hung sheets or tablecloths over it to create […]
A chess board is laid out on the floor. On Tuesdays and Fridays recorded music identifies each chess piece; on Wednesday shoes with the right feet on one side and the left feet on the other; on Thursday the players bring their own pieces (16 for each side), with the winner keeping them all, and […]
Fighting his way through the urban jungle of Soho, the intrepid explorer climbs up and discovers a brightly-lit clearing full of colourful rock totems on grey plinths. Are these a relic from a previous civilisation or are they natural rocks which have been moulded by the wind and by weathering? But wait! – the rocks […]
The exhibition title “June: A Painting Show” at Sadie Coles HQ in London cleverly conceals the real subject, which is how contemporary artists from around the world portray people at work, at play, in threatening environments or in provocative situations, in a wide variety of colourful, geometric and imaginary settings, some quite surreal and some […]
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? […]
London’s leading place in the international contemporary art world was strengthened last year by the opening of two new galleries – S2 by Sotheby’s In George Street, which recently held the Banksy retrospective exhibition, and Sadie Coles HQ in Kingly Street, Soho. Opening last September, Sadie Cole HQ’s new gallery supplements the existing two London […]
"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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