Goodbye to the White Cube architectural style for art galleries. A colourful, mad, magical mystery wonderland has appeared in the heart of Mayfair. Bright colours, with mysterious and magical characters weaving themselves through the ground floor with different angular spaces as you wander through, with weird perspectives created by the walls and on the floors […]
It’s a busy week in London for art visitors who would have leapt round from Jeff Koons’ exhibition at Alime Rech’s new Gallery to Berkeley Square where there was an opportunity to bid for Jeff Koons’ “Dom Perignon BALLOON VENUS”, from an edition of 650 for an estimate of only £25,000 to £35,000, one of the […]
A solitary door stands half-open in its frame in the church gardens of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, perhaps hinting of another spiritual world that could be found by the City workers or Polish builders sitting in the gardens if they were brave enough to push it open and enter through it. The opening door also announces the […]
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 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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