Cities often look their best at night when imaginative lighting illuminates buildings and streets while darkness hides the grit and dirt that can detract from them during the day. Think of the London Eye, the Eiffel tower and the bridges of Paris or other iconic buildings illuminated at night. Five years after the Olympic games […]
Several of the new buildings in China are in the form of gateways or eyes with central voids that allow the dragons to flow through. Rather unkindly, the “Gate to the East” tower, designed by RMJM as a 300m high iconic gateway to Suzhou was compared to a pair of underpants. “Is it an arch […]
The existing Museum of Chinese Science and Technology was opened to the public in September 1988. By all accounts, reading reviews on travel websites, it is tired and in need of considerable updating. Enter BL/KLM architects from Argentina who have won the international competition for a new Centre to be located in the developing Cultural […]
"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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