This year’s Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery, which reopened in February after a £15m extension.
Now in its 15th year, for 2015 the annual temporary pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery is designed by Spanish architects SelgasCano. Julian Vigo asks the pair about the thinking behind their colourful, playful structure.
As part of its recent Architecture Season, Hauser & Wirth Somerset has announced the winner of The Shed Project, a competition for young architects to create a residency space for artists.
I have collaborated with many people over the years – some more successfuly than others. Some on my side of the table and some on the other. The experience has ranged from the perfunctory, task oriented pooling of knowledge and […]
Details of the 15th annual pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery, which is this year designed by Madrid-based architects SelgasCano, reveal a polygonal structure covered in a translucent, multi-coloured fabric membrane.
After 12 weeks of detailed work, forensic archaeologists have revealed what was lost, and what survived, following last May’s fire at Glasgow School of Art’s historic Mackintosh Building.
For the first time, the V&A, in partnership with RIBA and supported by RBKC, staged a community-based artist residency. My studio at 7 Shalfleet Drive was attached to the More West housing development. This is the first housing development in […]
After a £15m redevelopment, Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery reopens with a stunning redesign that has doubled its size and opened it up to the public park it backs on to. All the better for displaying new shows by artists including Cornelia Parker, Sarah Lucas and Thomas Schütte, reports Bob Dickinson.
Three artists address the crumbling or peeling back of the picture plane through drawing and painting.
first published on my website huwmeredyddowen.com april 2014 However you define art, making it involves risk, something that is beaten out of architects from their very beginnings. So does that mean that architects cannot be artists? You could argue that architects […]
To start with a rather obvious statement; every building we interact with was designed by someone. As mandatory as this statement is, it is easy to forget the fact that as we navigate our urban spaces, we are surrounded, […]
artmaking / placemaking
Since November i have been documenting the regeneration of a building on the A1 into an architectural practice. this building is Art Deco in style and is absolutely stunning. The moment i read this building was to be restored i […]
Some drawings of skyscrapers i have done following on from some of my photographs. I love using pen and ink in my works especially mixing different techniques together
When you’re having a bad day in London, I’d like to recommend my own, personal remedy, handed down from my design-obsessed hoarder of a mother: the V and A. There’s always more marble-lined nooks to explore in the place, more […]
This blog shows my journey in painting and art.
The deadline was extended because there was a “line-side fire” affecting trains heading to London Bridge from Sunny South London on Friday afternoon which meant delays & cancellations. He was all swaddled in bubble wrap and ready to go, too. […]
The deadline approaches, encroaches even, for 10×10 artists, designers & architects to submit their finished ‘drawings’ for auction for architectural charity Article25. Participants were given a square on the grid of London centred around the Shard, and were asked to […]
Beyond the garden fence of the studio, the building work of More West progresses. Insulation material is being installed. Inside, I’m holding court on my first open day. It was great to see old and especially new faces. Allan Tyrrell was born […]
This past Saturday marked the start of #10x10London, a fundraising campaign for Article25’s architectural projects in post-war, post-disaster zones globally, in so called 3rd world countries, but also in underprivileged areas of our very own UK. Their members design and […]
The new Serpentine Sackler Gallery, designed by award-winning architect Zaha Hadid, is an impressive new London art space – but it’s the inaugural, site-specific exhibition by the Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas that steals the show.
This weekend, Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester is celebrating its temporary closure for a major redevelopment. We talk to its director about the need to grow, planning for the future and the importance of a good send off.
