An immense former wine cellar in Bilbao constructed in 1909 has, a century later, been transformed into a cultural and leaisure centre by the French Designer Philippe Starck. Three new buildings with well-proportioned brick façades and connecting bridges reminiscent of warehouse buildings have been constructed around public spaces and a huge atrium within the existing […]
You are a major health organisation commissioning a new headquarters building. What image would you want it to project about your organisation and its values? Healthy must be a first priority. What else? Efficiency, caring, organised, and perhaps innovative thinking? Bilbao is a city which has commissioned world-class architecture in Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum, Norman Foster’s “Fosteritos” […]
"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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