Clerkenwell was again flooded with interior, furniture and product designers, buyers, artists and architects for last week’s Clerkenwell Design Week, which continues to grow from strength to strength and reinforces the area as the UK’s premier centre for design, the importance of which the Government has yet to realise as it charges into Brexit negotiations. […]
People are rushing from one exhibition to another showroom; clutching their red guidebooks as if their lives depending on them, the rich variety of languages showing how international Clerkenwell Design Week has become, both in terms of the design, furniture and material showrooms that have concentrated in this area of London and of the visitors who […]
The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’ has occupied the same location near to St Paul’s Cathedral for its livery hall since 1339, while its existing grand building designed by Philip Hardwick dates from 1835. In 2012 the Company opened the new Goldsmiths’ Centre in Clerkenwell with the RIBA award-winning extension and refurbishment of the old Eagle […]
Clerkenwell in the east end of London is awash with architects, designers, buyers and students hunting the latest design trends, innovations and products. Clerkenwell Design Week 2015, now in its sixth year, is better than ever, reinforcing how this area of London has been regenerated as a “Design District” blending with “Tech City” around Old […]
Renault is the headline sponsor of Clerkenwell Design Week 2015 (19th – 21st May 2015 in London) and, as part of this, is showing the philosophies behind its vehicle design and how it takes cars from concepts to reality through its ‘Life Flower’ design strategy where each petal represents a different stage in life – […]
"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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