In the heart of the city and, yet hidden and discovered by many visitors by accident, what Leake Street is to London, Werregaren Straat is to Ghent. Here is Ghent graffiti art central, with the building walls, columns and even metal railings all covered in a changing panorama of painted images being gazed at by guided […]
If you drive down from Fort Lauderdale to Miami, as I frequently do when staying in the area, you will come to know the I-95 well, with its views out to different districts of Miami, against the backcloth of skyscrapers around the Harbour. As you drive on the I-95 above North Miami Avenue, the buildings […]
As part of the celebrations on the reopening of the Kettle’s Yard Gallery in the normally conservative university town of Cambridge, the French-Tunisian artist El Seed painted one of his characteristic murals on an architecturally-uninspiring post-war block of flats, Arbury Court. Intended to be there for only three months, such was its reception that it […]
The trappings of a rich and luxurious life, with brightly-coloured beach chairs, umbrellas and inflatable rings alongside or in the sea, in front of the a sleek super yacht, the grand houses – one Palladian; the other modernist in style – and, strangely, sitting in a row in the snow near the ski resorts. But […]
Why is it that public galleries don’t collect paintings from popular artists, but go their own way with more esoteric artists promoted by curators and international galleries? Apparently there are no works by Banksy in a major public gallery in the UK, something Scottish artist Jack Vettriano has also had to endure – it was […]
Princess Diana stares down from the window of the Tower like a princess in a fairy tale, unable to escape, while paparazzi with long-lense cameras watch her from the doorway below. Nearby cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Dick Dastardly, Muttley and Popeye keep an eye on things. This is Exchange Square, one of the […]
The pulsing blast of water cannon, riot police crashing forward in protective gear with strong helmets and shields, the explosive blasts of molotov cocktails, hooded rioters charging forward. The broken brick walls and worn pine floors of Lazideres Rathbone provide an appropriate rough setting for Jermone Lagarrigues’ paintings and drawings in his exhibition “The Tipping Point”. […]
The windows are covered over with panels of tiles, with three cartoon-like characters floating through the glass, giving a hint of what is inside. Inside, ceramic tiles decorate one of the walls, while the shadows of ceramic tiles weave through the paintings elsewhere. Holland and Portugal: two countries with a tradition of producing and using decorated […]
A huge black arc runs across one of the walls, with figures merging into the floor below it. Elsewhere brightly coloured safety jackets are hanging in rows, inviting visitors to wear them as they set off to explore the finely-proportioned eighteenth century rooms with their crystal chandeliers, elegant mantelpieces and patterned timber floors which have […]
When Maser strikes, everything is likely to be covered in his colourful abstract geometric stripes and shapes – walls, floors, furniture and even buses and cars. Irish street artist Maser has arrived in London. Just as the windows of four Bond Street buildings have been taken over by artists, those of 11 Rathbone Place now […]
"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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