Swirling landscapes reflect the beauty of the natural world and its fragility as earlier in the year Australia experienced immense bushfires while England had some of the worse flooding in a generation from record rainfalls and, meantime, the impact of climate change is all around us, not least in the shrinking of the ice caps […]
At the same time as President Trump is announcing new USA tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports, raising the tensions in trade between the two countries, Ed Moses and Qin Feng are bridging across the cultures and the generations at Blain|Southern in London. In the cool white double-height spaces overlooking Hanover Street, paintings and ink […]
Cities are full of grids: streets layouts trying to tame the natural landscape, plus paving patterns, railing designs, building elevations and cladding systems, while underneath the streets are grids of pipes, ducts, tunnels and cables. Architects Squire and Partners played with colour in the grid of the recessed windows of the new development at 4/5 […]
"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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