I have to admit that I hadn’t visited the Vyne for many years, indeed decades. This is a fascinating house to visit, once you negotiate the road system of Basingstoke with its mania for roundabouts which reminds you of Milton Keynes. The Vyne is a house in which you should look at the details, as […]
The then-uninhabited Antarctic island of South Georgia was first discovered in 1675 and was claimed as a British territory by Captain Cook when he landed in 1775. It became an important centre for the whaling industry in 1904 when the Norwegian Carl Antony Larsen set up a whaling company and opened the first whaling station […]
"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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