As you wander around Mayfair, you see the same thing that you will find in High Streets up and down the country. Empty retail/gallery spaces caused by a perfect storm of Government policies on business rates, high rentals, Brexit and general uncertainty in the economy. While many smaller galleries have been closing and moving to […]
A shuttered window with a patriotic Stars and Stripes stuck on the dirty glass, along with an “Open” sign suggesting a hotel or lodging house that has seen better days. The other building is more modern, constructed from concrete bricks, possibly also a hotel as it is at a road junction and, at the bottom, […]
"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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