Think of tobacco factories and Bizet’s “Carmen” springs to mind. Was Malaga’s historic Fabrica de Tabacos (Tobacco Factory) constructed in the 1920’s such a noisy hotbed of intrigue, gossip and passion as its counterpart in Seville? Today it is much calmer as it continues its development as a museum and cultural centre, with the arrival of the St […]
The crystal glass cube “El Cubo”; has been transformed into a multi-coloured chequerboard with the sunlight shining through to project the colours downwards onto the white walls of the space below. Paris’ Centre Pompidou has arrived in Malaga with 6,000 sqm of space as part of the revitalisation of the port area, its first branch outside of France. The […]
The Romans were famous for their long straight roads, but this doesn’t seem to have applied in south west Spain. The port of Baelo Claudia was established by the Romans to trade in tuna and mackerel at a strategic location near the Straits of Gibraltar while the village of Cesares, perched at the top of […]
Somerset House in London has a long history in the storage and analysis of data. Here, in the 18th and 19th centuries, officers in the Navy analysed data received from ships and spies to decide where to send their fleets for the next battle, while Inland Revenue filled the buildings with files of tax records and in […]
You know that you are in the right area as you walk down the narrow street with bold colourful lettering, cartoon figures and grafitti from a wide variety of street artists covering every surface apart from the road itself. You go downwards; daylight slowly disappears and the art becomes more vibrant, glowing from the walls. […]
You know that you are in the right area as you walk down the narrow street with the bold colourful letters and figures of a variety of street artists covering every surface apart from the road itself. You go downwards; daylight slowly disappears and the art becomes more vibrant, glowing from the walls. You see […]
Silent, majestic sentinels against the skies, standing guard over the harbour, the dark cranes remind us of the time when this was a bustling noisy harbour with dockers shouting at each other and ships fighting for the dockside space for the cranes to swing over and lift out their cargoes: tobacco from North America, spices […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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