There are few architects who are so radical in their day that they have a style named after them which survives several centuries later. Seventeenth century Veneto must have been an exciting place. Clients were demanding their new villas to be designed in the latest fashion by Andrea Palladio (1508 – 1580), the sought-after architect […]
Are there still spaces in the crowded urban area of central London for development of art galleries, unless part of a major redevelopment such as Phillips in Berkeley Square or Hauser and Wirth in Savile Row. While it seems highly unlikely, the White Cube found the site of an old electricity sub-station in Mason’s Yard, […]
Not quite as much of an expedition as finding the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, but it is still an adventure to reach Damien Hirst’s new Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall, London, though a relatively short walk from several underground stations through the railway arches which split the area in two and which […]
"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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