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This year’s Turner Prize shortlist includes the artists Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers – and Assemble, an architectural collective of 18 under-30-somethings nominated for Granby Four Streets, a project to reclaim and renovate a number of apartments in Toxteth, Liverpool. In the usual flurry of hastily composed reactions, the typical critique – ‘How […] More
It is surely right that so comparatively soon after this devastating earthquake the world’s attention remains focused on the humanitarian aspect of the disaster. However, there is another cultural aspect to this tragedy that is only just beginning to be properly reported: the damage to the famed architectural and artistic heritage of the Kathmandu Valley […] More
From the May issue of Apollo: preview and subscribe here The restoration and conservation work at Chartres Cathedral, overseen by the French Ministry for Culture, is proving to be a controversial project. Are critics of the scheme, which involves the repainting of the interior to match the original colours and the cleaning of the stained […] More
Of the 1,715 proposals for the official Guggenheim Helsinki design contest, the only one that made me look twice (in a good way) was a bright pink reclaimed cargo ship. A floating museum – what a beguiling proposition! Somewhat ironically, another ship-museum appeared this week among the eight shortlisted proposals for The Next Helsinki, a […] More
The Italian architect Bernini submitted a series of designs for the Louvre’s East wing in 1665. How would Paris look today if Louis XIV had commissioned him instead of turning his attention to Versailles? Paris: all the great monarchs and statesmen of France have left their mark on the capital. In March 1989, President François […] More
Art and architecture, it sometimes seems, have an unhealthy obsession with each other. When the commercial art gallery Hauser & Wirth announced an architecture season at its farmyard conversion in Somerset, I decided it would be a good opportunity to explore this relationship, and to pick out some trends in the way they connect. After […] More
The Serpentine Gallery has released images of its 15th annual Pavilion, to be designed by Spanish architects SelgasCano. The temporary structure will be an ‘amorphous, double-skinned, polygonal structure’, and like much of their previous work (including their own studio space in the Madrid woodland) it will explore how buildings and their interiors can interact with the natural environment in… […] More
Aspen Art Museum opens its new building this weekend – a latticed, light-stippled design by the celebrated architect Shigeru Ban. The Japanese architect, who won the Pritzker Prize this year, is well known for his use of paper as a cheap and versatile building material. His low cost, recycled ‘paper-tube’ shelters have been used to house refugees and […] More
