Up and down the country there are much-loved buildings and engineering structures at the heart of their communities, many owned by local authorities, sitting empty due to lack of funding, the need to find new 21st century uses or to the cost of refurbishment. We have seen too many of these swept away over the […]
How many commuters and shoppers, busy to reach their destinations from the tube or the buses, walk past murals without noticing them, especially when they lose their initial vibrancy or suffer from the graffiti of other street artists? Commuters travelling to and from Goodge Street underground station may not notice the amount of detail and […]
"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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