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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, 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 multidisciplinary 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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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.

  • Traditional Tanzanian folk song

    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.

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  • Today12:00
    BBC Radio 3

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