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 dull dark January night in Mayfair, but the lights shine brightly in Phillips in Berkeley Square with three floors of limited edition works by a huge variety of modern and contemporary artists from North America, Japan, Britain and Europe including Jan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Roy […]
A pleasant summer’s day in north London, though the environment around the north side of City Road is gritty, urban and uninviting, with a standard prefabricated drive-through McDonalds full of builders from the new residential blocks being built all around. A long queue snakes up Wharf Road under the projecting balconies of the new developments, to […]
"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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