Author: jaywp

  • Liverpool

    A rare conjunction of musical and architectural genius has been brought about by the provision of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s 12.5-second reverberation time, found now to perfectly accommodate Sir John Tavener’s ‘The Atma Mass’, at Liverpool’s great Anglican cathedral. Tavener…

  • It’s that Libeskind again

    Daniel Libeskind slipped unobtrusively back into London from New York, again, for 8 and 9 March 2004 to attend the opening of London’s stealthiest new acquisition, the Graduate Centre for London Metropolitan University on the Holloway Road in North London.…

  • Isokon Reborn

    The once semi-derelict Isokon building, in Belsize Park in North London, has now reopened, and following a 2.3 million renovation, the flats are being snapped up. But in a unique adherence to social ethos, some 25 of the 36 flats…

  • How we kept meeting

    Sir Peter Blake and Sir Colin St John Wilson, as interviewed by Peter Stanford in The Independent on Sunday (14 March 2004) seem more like mentor and student than buddies. But buddies they are, and they represent a revealing slice…

  • The Pleasure of ‘Pain’. Pain: Passion, compassion, sensibility

    A Wellcome Trust exhibition Science Museum, London until 20 June 2004 Sadism and salvation, torture and tenderness, martyrdom and mercy: these are the subjects of Pain: Passion, Compassion, Sensibility – the first major exhibition to explore the enigma of pain…

  • The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980

    Philip Guston is one of America’s most important 20th century artists. His work occupies a unique place which the retrospective exhibition now showing at the Royal Academy in London reveals. If one views a painting such as ‘Untitled’ (Sandwich, 1980),…

  • Karel Nel: Status of Dust

    Art First Contemporary Art, 9 Cork Street, London, W1 9 November 2003-22 January 2004

  • Bill Viola: The Passions

    The National Gallery, London 22 October 2003—4 January 2004

  • A Crystalline, Kaleidoscopic Universe – Prada Aoyama, Tokyo by Herzog & de Meuron

    In 1999 Prada launched the “Epicentre Store” programme to examine different ways of reinventing the Prada retail experience by commissioning avant-garde architects like Rem Koolhaas and SANNA to design their new shops. The latest addition to the programme was Prada…

  • Spider in the Field – Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Center, Matsudai by MVRDV

    MVRDV is an office for urbanism and architecture based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, founded by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries in 1991 after they won the first prize in the Berlin Europan Competition. They are well…