Looking back in time, it was an astonishing ambition, but the second half of the 20th century was an era of such ambitions, including 50 years ago the landing of the first man on the moon. In 2000, the new Brazilian capital city of Brasilia held the distinction of being the largest city in the […]
Appropriately, in a building which used to be the headquarters of the P&O Oriental Steam Navigation Company near Trafalgar Square, with its the mahogany-panelled shipping hall which is now part of the Brazilian Embassy, the best of contemporary Brazilian furniture design is on display during the London Design Festival, complimenting the old mahogany with new […]
One of the joys of London is its international arts scene which features international artists both from abroad and who now live here – which makes a nonsense of Brexit. Brazil – Canada – Korea: The three countries have their art spaces around Trafalgar Square, so it is possible to visit all three together to […]
On an expansive flat plateau with views across to the city sit sculptural concrete forms - a pillar for a pencil, curved waves like the wings of the bird or the waves of the ocean, circular pools like ink wells. Oscar Niemeyer (1907 – 2012) considered the University of Mentouri in Constantine in Algeria built between […]
"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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