27.7.16 Yesterday Caroline Davison, the Director of Norfolk Archaeological Trust, showed us round St Benet’s Abbey (a ruined Benedictine monastery) and told us about the architectural connections between this 10th century monastery and churches with round towers found in Denmark. […]
The London gallery’s expanded 2016 architecture programme has opened to the public, featuring the 16th annual pavilion designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and four newly commissioned summer houses.
Back from our ten days visit to Austria. We had our second and third meeting with the architect and I’m translating each meeting into a drawing. I ‘m reading the notes I made over and over again and transport myself […]
NVA has received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Creative Scotland to save the iconic modernist building and bring it back to life as an arts centre and heritage destination.
S1 Artspace has announced more details of it planned relocation to Sheffield’s brutalist Park Hill estate, following last week’s budget announcement of £1 million of government funding for the scheme.
For NVA’s Hinterland, a derelict former Catholic seminary near Glasgow has been bathed in light and sound before it is partly transformed into a new space for art and performance.
It turns out that documenting the de-homing process of my own house is more interesting than showing images of de-homed houses I have no relationship with. So I’ve stopped viewing houses that are for sale. I’ve taken images of each […]
16th annual Pavilion to be designed by Copenhagen and New York-based Bjarke Ingels Group, with four architects also commissioned for the Summer Houses project.
It was a pleasure to meet up recently with Derek Latham at Lancaster West estate in North Kensington where I was community artist in residence. He worked for the architectural firm of Clifford Wearden and Associates in the late 1960s […]
Community engagement at a nursery
On the 24th September 2015 I attended The Betjeman Society’s meeting: John Betjeman Saving Churches. Here are some notes from the two presentations by the Churches Conservation Trust & the National Churches Trust. John Betjeman enthusiasm and importance for the English parish church. Love […]
Work photographed by Ed Jansen.
“If Modernity, or Modernism, is our Antiquity, then its ruins have become every bit as fascinating, poignant and morbid as those of the Greeks and Romans were to the 18th Century.”
“The universe is something that is so big that you cannot even imagine. It is like a big black hole where you can travel forever and you do not know if you will ever reach an end. Nobody has ever […]
Pondering: to weigh in the mind with thoroughness and care
On a very rainy day, I went to visit the Bispham tram station, built in 1932 and designed by J.C Robinson and the Blackpool Corporation. He also later designed the Little Bispham Tram station further up the line which opened […]
Five floors in Glasgow School of Art’s Reid Building provide temporary space for the Phoenix Bursary Exhibition, a show of new work by artists from the Phoenix Bursary programme. Richard Taylor talks to two graduates with work in the exhibition and finds out what the bursary meant to them.
The Whitworth Art Gallery follows its recent Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year win with a nomination for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize.
