The disused Commonwealth Institute building in London is a remarkable landmark of post-war British architecture. Now, its soaring internal spaces are being reconfigured to house the relocation of the Design Museum in 2014, but will the structure finally be fit for purpose?
Anselm Kiefer is inspired by the transformative possibilities of ruins and ex-industrial spaces, in part derived from his childhood in post-war Germany. He talks to Apollo about the ideas that have driven him to create paintings that mutate through alchemy
