Coffee shops are full of people on their laptops, entrepreneurs doing deals with potential clients, students writing their essays, businessmen accessing their emails. What, however, if what is needed is confidentiality, silence to concentrate, the ability to print a document or to have a noisy face to face conversation on skype? Originally appearing in 1926 to the design […]
In 1922, the engineer Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov built a 160 metre high communications tower in Moscow without use of scaffolding or cranes by creating each level and winching it above the previous one, like the structure of a telescope. The tower became redundant in 2002 and, following international pressure and a smartphone vote, the site […]
Imagine driving a car with a speed of 1000 mph from London to Aberdeen in half an hour (if the roads were clear). The car – the supersonic “Bloodhound” - is aiming to set a new world record and is on display at the first New Science Live interactive event at Excel, London. Well done, New […]
Given London’s reputation as an international centre of design creativity, it is surprisingly that it has not held a biennale until now. The first Design Biennale has arrived, at last, at Somerset House with designers from 37 counties presenting a wide variety of views on the world, and of utopia and sustainability, from the need for people to […]
Standing like a symbol of the revitalisation of Amsterdam’s harbour on the IJ River, René van Zuuk’s sculptural Architecture Centre for Amsterdam (ARCAM), completed over a decade ago, represents the design-led regeneration which has brought buildings such as the historic Armoury, now the National Maritime Museum, into the 21st century and provided new high-quality contemporary […]
Home to a collection which ranges from some of the finest Dutch paintings by artists such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Johannes Vermeer to Gerrit Rietvelt’s iconic chair and a fighter plane from World War I, the refurbished Rijksmuseum is an exemplar of restoring and enhancing original interiors while adding new contemporary spaces, lighting and […]
"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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