Opened in 2011, The Hepworth Wakefield is the centrepiece of the regeneration of this area of Wakefield, with its colourful old barges and warehouses that hopefully will be redeveloped, perhaps into residential accommodation and working spaces for artists. Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Hepworth Wakefield, Phillips London is holding an exhibition of Barbara Hepworth’s work focussing […]
Cranes and construction is evident in Berlin as the city continues to invest in new world-class cultural, research and learning projects, including the ongoing masterplan of the world-heritage Museum Island where refurbishment of three of the five historic museum buildings has been completed (the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Bode-Museum, and the Neues Museum, along with the Colonnade […]
Outside is a sandy beach on which, when the tide is out, children will create patterns in the sand and build sandcastles and other structures, until washed away by the sea. Inside, a rake rotates continually across a circular bed of sand creating lines and then smoothing them out, over and over again, a smaller […]
Imagine living in London in the latter half of the 19th century. It must have been a great place to live and experience the city growing and developing with new residential areas, new railway stations and new exhibition halls to cement London’s position as a major international centre for design and technology, using the most […]
"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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