Centre Point will forever be linked with the “Swinging Sixties” in London. The 33 storey office tower, designed by the architects Richard Seifert and Partners, was built between 1961 and 1966 and was notorious for remaining empty until 1975 due to property economics at the time and the aspiration of the developer to let the […]
Lazarides gallery at 11 Rathbone Place, north of Oxford Street, London is slightly blighted at the moment by construction works opposite it as the concrete cores for a huge redevelopment of 38,300m²/412,200ft², designed by Make Architects for Great Portland Estates, are progressing upwards. This 2.3 acre site previously housed the Royal Mail West End Delivery […]
"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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