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Asif Khan, architect

Michael Berkeley’s guest is the prize-winning designer and artist Asif Khan, who leads an architectural practice working on the transformation of two London landmarks.

Asif Khan is a world-renowned architect and designer whose work inspired a recent headline – ‘is there anything Asif Khan can’t transform?’.

His current projects include the re-invention of the former Smithfield meat market into the new London Museum, working with Stanton Williams and Julian Harrap Architects, and the extensive renewal of the Barbican Centre. Further afield, in Kazakhstan, he’s turned a vast former Soviet cinema into a new cultural centre.

He opened his own studio in 2007, and has designed exhibitions, temporary pavilions and installations around the world. He views architecture as a multi-disciplinary field, bringing together design, science and art.

His musical choices include Chopin, Shostakovich, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Brian Eno.

Producer: Katy Hickman

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Sun 22 Feb 202612:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Franz Liszt

    3 Etudes de Concert S.144, No. 3: Un Sospiro

    Performer: Van Cliburn.
    • My Favorite Liszt.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 2.

  • Trad.

    Rag Des

    Performer: Hariprasad Chaurasia. Performer: Brij Bhushan Kabra.
    • Call Of The Valley.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • Trad.

    Malaika

    Singer: Miriam Makeba.
    • Appel à l'Afrique.
    • Syllart.
    • 6.

  • Lucio Dalla

    Caruso

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: Bologna Municipal Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Chiaramello.
    • Luciano Pavarotti - The Essential Pavarotti - A Selection Of His Greatest Record.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 10.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: István Székely. Orchestra: Hungarian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gyula Németh.
    • Great Orchestral Classics, Vol. 10.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Brian Eno

    Kazakhstan

    Lyricist: Brian Eno.
    • Music For Installations.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 1.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No 2 in F major, Op 102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich. Orchestra: I Musici de Montréal. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
    • Shostakovich: Piano concerto no. 2: I Musici de Montréal.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    Nothing Without You

    • Mustt Mustt.
    • Real World Records.
    • 2.

  • Galimzhan Moldanazar

    Mahabbatym

    Performer: Moldanazar.
    • Mahabbatym.
    • MOLDANAZAR music.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Sun 22 Feb 202612:00
    BBC Radio 3

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