The Hayward Gallery opened 50 years ago in 1968. Its recent refurbishment by Feilden Clegg Bradley was so sensitive to the original building that visitors probably don’t even realise it happened, having kept the essential character of the brutalist concrete architecture intact, cleaned it up and restored blacked-out roof-lights to allow more (controlled) daylight into […]
It is a sad reflection on current government policy that we think locking people up in inhumane conditions for any crime, sometime in prisons which are over 100 years old, “crimes” as low risk as not turning up to court or making the judge grumpy, is the best way of dealing with people who have […]
As the world comes together in Rio for the Olympics, this summer’s Festival of Love celebrates people from around the world, in particular those who are challenge the status quo, whether refugees, artists or designers. The Calais Jungle became the home for many refugees seeking a better life, growing into a small town where people […]
You are sitting in the gloomy van with darkened windows and locked doors; it stops and you hear the creak of heavy doors opening ahead; the van moves forward and there is a deafening and eerie sound as the doors shut and are bolted behind you, then the van doors open slowly. This is it […]
The South Bank Centre is celebrating contemporary dance, music, theatre, design, fashion, art and literature that links the UK and the Indian subcontinent in the sixth annual festival Alchemy with events and art installations across the buildings and external terraces. The art installations include graphic art, photography and lotus flowers which pulse in response to […]
Sculptor Alex Chinneck has again turned the world upside down with his latest urban sculpture called “Pick Yourself Up and Pull Yourself Together” in the Hungerford Car Park on London’s South Bank where a strip of tarmac appears to have lifted up and curved over, carrying with it a red Vauxhall Corsa car which remains […]
It is busy summer for Street Art in London. In July, Steve Lazarides curated the stunning exhibition “BANKSY- The Unauthorised Retrospective” in Sotheby’s S2 Gallery in Mayfair, London. Steve Lazarides, collector and gallery owner, is one of the first figures to recognise the importance of street art in modern culture and bring it from the […]
"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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