Outside in the green landscape of the August sunshine, the atmosphere in Holland Park in Kensington is peaceful and relaxing, with families walking through the gardens and runners jogging along the paths. Inside the Design Museum, you enter another world, a world that is current closed due to coronavirus, the world of pulsing throbbing nightclubs […]
I’m off! I’ve had enough of Brexit, elections, climate change. I’ve got my ticket booked and I’m moving ……. to Mar I’m not quite sure how I get there or what to expect, but Elon Musk has plans and architects including Foster + Partners, Hassell, SEArch+ and others have been designing community building and homes […]
The most fascinating aspect of visiting Warner Brother Studios in north London and the Harry Potter tour is the story of how the films were made, alongside film sets, props, costumes, special effects and stage designs. It is far more fascinating than, for example, Disneyland, which is just a very clever extension of the films […]
Writers, designers and inventors have always been looking to the future, imagining what it would be like. Some, like H.G.Wells predicted inventions to come like submarines, rockets and helicopters, or perhaps they even inspired them, while the communicator device in Star Trek is said to have inspired Martin Cooper at Motorola with the development of […]
You enter into a room with photographs of monuments going back millennia in time. These, says David Adjaye, are the inspiration for the seven projects on show at the Design Museum in a beautifully designed exhibition in darkened spaces in which models and other exhibits glow against a backcloth of videos and computer images of […]
In 2009, Michele Obama broke with the tradition of the First Lady wearing dresses by American designers to major events; her choice for a NATO dinner and for the American Ballet Theatre in New York was the Tunisian couturier Azzedine Alia, whose list of clients includes some of the most noteworthy woman of the age […]
The two powerful images of recent political campaigns in the UK and the US are the BREXIT bus which which proclaimed across its sides that we would save £350 million a week to spend on other things and Donald Trump’s simple slogan “Make American Great Again” embroidered on huge numbers of baseball caps. No matter […]
It’s depressing to be 60+ in Britain. Is it time to leave for Greece? At a participatory event, young 7-year old Oona reckoned that old age starts when you become a grandparent – with a likely age of 80 plus-, while an European Social Survey across Europe of nearly 55,000 people about when old ages […]
"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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