In February 1970, in what seems another era, Angela Flowers established the Flowers Gallery, one of the longest-running in London, now with two locations, one on Mayfair and one in Shoreditch, representation in New York and a new gallery planned to open in Hong Kong in 2020. Sadly, with the Coronavirus situation, the galleries are […]
Shoreditch in London is a ethnically-diverse, edgy, buzzy area which young people love and identify with. Opposite the sea containers of Box Park, the Hales Gallery is tucked away in the heart of the Tea Building in Spitalfields, through a small door onto the street and down a long corridor to the main gallery space […]
Inside the entrance of the church stands the unlikely figure of an Agent Provocateur from the roof of the Lenin Museum in Prague, by the artist Irena Sedlecka, one of three Czech sculptors commissioned in the early 1950′s by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia to create six larger-than-life heroic figures for the Museum and which […]
Wandering along Leonard Street in Shoreditch, with galleries such as Jealousy and Pure Evil nearby, I spotted through the windows the bold colourful graphics of Kelly Anna’s exhibition, curated by Liat Chen, “She Stole The Show’, in The Book Club. A Book Club that is a bar/restaurant and an art gallery? Ah, this is Shoreditch, […]
Walking along New Inn Yard in Shoreditch, the black metal roller shutter to a loading bay is open, while the adjacent windows are secured with iron bars. The view through the doors is not of delivery vans, packing cases or storage racking but of art, in what must be one of the more unusual gallery […]
With so many old pubs having closed and taken on new uses as supermarkets or fast food restaurants, it is good to find one in City Road, between the Angel Islington and Old Street, that has established itself as one of London’s premier companies for the supply and restoration of antique and marble fireplaces. This […]
"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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