Put on your black topcoat, brightly coloured waistcoat, elegant trousers and your new polished shoes with their silver buckles, and collect your cane at the door as you saunter out into the most amazing sight – a complete new town being created in neoclassical style, its fresh golden stone shining in the sunshine and the […]
Sometimes Google Maps just goes into apoplexy. It was twisting and turning, taking us to roads that were closed off and we had to pay on a toll road twice. Is it the hills or the incomprehensible road system (to strangers) of some parts of Bath that Google couldn’t cope with, which I now […]
Imagine your amazement as you enter the great pool of the baths, with steam rising from the natural spring water up to the immense roof 40 metres above you with alcoves alongside in which you can relax and chat with friends, before moving through to one of the hot or cold rooms for perhaps a […]
The fine collection of Sir Thomas William Holbourne (1793-1874) must always have been constrained within its building. His collection full of treasures including porcelain, silver, glass and bronzes plus paintings by Gainsborough, Guardi, Stubbs, Zophany and others became Bath’s first art gallery when the collection was donated to the people of Bath and, in 1916, […]
"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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