The Jewish Polish artist Jankel Adler (born 1895) fled from the south of France to Britain in 1943, where he settled first in Glasgow. His painting of the Mother and Child is said to reference Picasso’s Guernica and is poignant as he was uncertain of the fate of his partner and daughter until after the […]
In Ireland, St Brigid’s Day on 1st February optimistically celebrates the beginning of spring, no matter what the weather, with one of the traditions being the making of crosses from reeds. Currently with the cold, snow and ice, it feels anything but spring, but the spring colourful bulbs are bursting through the hard ground and […]
Star fish travelling down the English Channel, up the River Thames to London and up the Rivers Rhine and Main to Frankfurt. Could Nessie the Loch Ness monster also manage to leave Loch Ness and escape into the Moray Firth, down the coast and similarly across the Channel and up the rivers to Frankfurt, to look […]
Smith Square, five minute’s walk from the Houses of Parliament, is dominated by St John’s Smith Square, the baroque church designed by Thomas Archer and completed in 1728 which was converted to a concert hall after being bombed in the Second World War. At one time the Square housed the headquarters of both the Conservative […]
"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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