There’s not much in Northampton to attract visitors from elsewhere, especially as the Museum and Art Gallery – with its claims of showing the largest collection of shoes in the world – is closed for redevelopment. To the credit of everyone involved, it has a new university campus down on the riverside, with an Enterprise […]
It’s been a mixed year for Charles Rennie Mackintosh with the 150th anniversary of his birth. Astonishingly, yes, he was born in the 19th century and died 90 years ago, yet his work still feels so modern and relevant for the 21st century. His masterpiece Hill House is shrouded in scaffolding while the National […]
It’s London Design Week, with the newest and most innovative designs from across the world on show at venues across London, including 100% Design at Olympia and Design Junction at King’s Cross, reinforcing London’s credentials as the design capital of the world. At Phillip’s, over a century of modern design from Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s chair […]
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 – 1928) is probably Glasgow’s best-know architect. While recent headlines having been about the fire which destroyed much of the iconic interior of his Glasgow School of Art and the competition to select architects for its rebuilding, the Royal Institution of British Architects (RIBA) is holding an exhibition of over 60 […]
The devastating fire that destroyed much of the west wing of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art, has been well-reported. Well done to the fire services and the staff of the School who had the difficult task of dealing with the fire and trying to minimise the impact on this historic building […]
Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s School of Art, completed in 1909, is one of the greatest buildings in Scotland if not in Europe. In a year where the Scots are going to vote on a proposal for independence, it is slightly sad that it is an American architect who was commissioned to carry out the extension to […]
"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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