The trappings of a rich and luxurious life, with brightly-coloured beach chairs, umbrellas and inflatable rings alongside or in the sea, in front of the a sleek super yacht, the grand houses – one Palladian; the other modernist in style – and, strangely, sitting in a row in the snow near the ski resorts. But […]
I have discovered that a friend, now retired, used to work in the basement of 3 Hanover Square when it was an HSBC Bank. In Southfields where I live, the HSBC has now become a popular Café Nero and our former NatWest Bank sits empty awaiting a new use. Will it be yet another coffee […]
Having been popping up in different locations in Soho and Covent Garden, Unit London has at last settled down in its new home at 3 Hanover Square. Their new space sets the aesthetics of a contemporary gallery space, especially the highly polished concrete floor finish on the ground floor, against quirky features of the existing […]
"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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