How would you describe the interiors of palazzi from the time that Venice’s power and wealth was at its height? Decadent, luxurious and glittering, but would you describe them as disfunctional? To Carpenters Workshop Gallery, the term ‘dysfunction’ is not, as we might think, negative, but related to art it is positively positive: ‘DYSFUNCTIONAL rethinks […]
Although the church of St James in Clerkenwell, London, has an old and colourful history, in 1788 an Act of Parliament was passed to replace the unsatisfactory aggregation of buildings with a new modern church designed by James Carr in the style of Sir Christopher Wren and James Gibbs. Dedicated in 1792 with upper galleries […]
Among the highlights of the design exhibitions across London during the London Design Festival are the international celebrations of contemporary design from countries such as China and Argentine at 100% Design, Denmark at Design Junction and Norway, Korea, Sweden, Southern Italy, Ireland, Czechoslovakia and Poland at Tent/Superbrands. The concentration of a large number of exhibitors […]
If the grey hulking mass of the former Central St Martin’s Building in Southampton Row, London has ghosts of its former students and staff walking through the empty rooms, left almost as they were when the doors were closed and the School moved to its magnificent new building at King’s Cross, then they would be […]
What is luxury? Is it having the latest technical gadget; relaxing on a super-yacht in Monaco, wearing a unique gold watch from a well-known Swiss or French maker, or perhaps, just having time to enjoy these or even lessor luxuries? Sometimes it is having something truly beautiful that is natural, either real and impossible 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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