Japanese design achieves emotion, connection and refinement from the minimum of shape, line and colour; Japanese ceramics have incredible beauty with their perfectly proportioned shapes, free of fuss and elaboration; Japanese landscapes bring the outside world into the home and place natural materials in zen gardens where nature provides a relaxing contemplative environment as a […]
Multi-storey car parks in London used to be great cash cows for their owners and operators. Car drivers would drive around trying to find spaces at any cost, such was the demand. The congestion charge, improvements in public transport and a renaissance in cycling put paid to that and now car parks are a dying […]
On the east side of London’s historic Hanover Square, the modern classical elevations of Nos 4 and 5 completed by the architects Squire and Partners in 2012, hide the credentials as one of London’s most environmentally-sustainable office buildings. The six-storey mixed-use scheme, with its rectilinear black brick façade and tall deep windows, provides a high-quality […]
"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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