Multi-storey car parks in London used to be great cash cows for their owners and operators. Car drivers would drive around trying to find spaces at any cost, such was the demand. The congestion charge, improvements in public transport and a renaissance in cycling put paid to that and now car parks are a dying […]
It is quite a surprise to come out of the rich interiors of the Palace of Versailles and be confronted by bold dramatic sculptures by Anish Kapoor, this year’s contemporary art installation at the Palace. C-Curve on the Terrace and Sky Mirror in the Water Gardens, located on the central axis of the garden façade, make […]
New London Architecture (NLA) has a new model of future developments in London. Paul Harrison and John Wood have created a model of a different city in their sculpture “A Film about a City” as part of their exhibition “An Almost Identical Copy” in London. A surreal of buildings have the fun of wooden building […]
"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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