Outside, Antony Gormley’s statue stands alone looking out across the courtyard to Bermondsey Street, with the Shard at London Bridge in the distance. Inside, above your head, you might sense traces of a helicopter in the neon rotor arms, the body and the circular wheel – in fact the shapes are derived from drawings of […]
Earlier in the week, I had been on a visit to the London Transport Workshop Museum at Acton Town where the original paintings for many of London Transport’s posters are stored in a controlled environment on moveable metal mesh screens, artistic memories of an era which when poster design was at its zenith. The […]
The White Cube aesthetic of gallery design, with white walls, white lighting and highly polished concrete floor comes alive when the art is reflected in the floor, creating a further dimension to the experience for the viewer, like watching lights playing in a dark pond of water or floodlit buildings along the River Thames, the […]
"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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