The Mushroom has an interesting role in the life of vegetables – good, serious, spiritual and sinister – with a unique place in our culture from the joys of ‘magic mushrooms’, a place on which elves and fairies sit, a leading role within ‘Alice of Wonderland’, an ability to spring up overnight in dark places […]
Take sounds out of context and they take on a different meaning. Everyday and stressful sounds of the city, which may may not even register that we are hearing, can surprisingly become soothing and calming in a different environment. Music, sounds and technology bathed in a dark red light create an immersive experience within one […]
Remember those old-fashioned ways of keeping in touch – letters, phone calls, face to face meetings and talking to people? While the internet is over fifty years old, it is only in the last 20 years or so that it has become all pervasive. It seems astonishing now to think that the first ipad was […]
Born in 1939 in Trinidad, Jamaica, Horace Ové came to Britain in 1960, since when he developed a career as one of the UK’s leading black film-makers, photographers and writers, documenting racism and black power and culture in the UK, both positive and negative. The photographs in ‘The Art of Seeing’ include a swirling performance by […]
You can tell something different is going on. Colour has appeared on the stone walls and floors of Somerset House and Scottish artist Huw Locke (currently on show at the Perez Art Museum in Miami) has provided one of his colourful irreverent coats of arts, reminding us that this building used to be a centre […]
‘Both my parents are immigrants and came to London after the war, and sadly decades later, we are still seeing war, politics and corruption displacing people. As a father, I find the whole idea of taking my children on a life or death journey to find a better life absolutely terrifying. Your future is in […]
Two different exhibitions with themes of the experiences for immigrants to move to a strange country, what it is like living in Britain today, how have they moulded into, and been influenced by, their communities and the cultural and creative contribution they have made to this nation. Over 100 interdisciplinary artists in ‘Get Up, Stand […]
In 1789 the Navy Board in London moved into its new offices in Somerset House, then just completed, where it remained until, merged into the Board of Admiralty, it moved out to Whitehall in 1873. At Somerset House, it had a link with the river that ran down to the sea from which the Navy […]
It is September in London; children and students are returning to school, college and university, the sunshine has gone and the weather is cloudy and grey, and the tube is packed again as people return to work after the holidays, while the tourists are still exploring the city. London is preparing for a design-fest as […]
Outside it was cold and grey, a typical London winter’s evening, as the well-wrapped skaters enjoyed themselves dancing round on the ice of the skating rink and the cold wind blew up the River Thames. Inside was the contrasting heat of Marrakesh, as Hassan Hajjaj’s exhibition ‘La Caravane’ came to a close. In the historic […]
"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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