You can see the passers-by in the street outside looking in through the street windows. Why is there is rough brick arch here? Is it an archaeological exhibit? The bridge ‘Troubled Waters’ is structurally quite simple. Held together by gravity, its meaning is quite complex. On the one hand, it represents the past – the […]
The area north of New Oxford Street in London, around Eastcastle Street, is developing as a centre for art galleries, spreading west from Cork Street and north from Soho. In 2012, the Carroll Fletcher Gallery opened to designs by Allsop Gollings Architects. The galleries are ubiquitous white boxes, but what makes this gallery are the […]
"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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