As much a symbol of Venice’s power and wealth as a trading nation as the Doge’s Palace, the Arsenale was the engine house, the shipbuilding centre, a massive series of buildings and docks hidden behind fortified walls that at one time was the largest industrial complex in Europe, supplied with wood from a dedicated forest […]
Once a noisy, hyper-active, bustling centre of activity with between 1500 and 2000 people working in naval centre of one of the greatest trading cities of its era, today the Arsenale di Venezia appears externally quiet while the waters flowing through it are calm and serene. Inside this huge complex is another world of high […]
"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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