As you explore this year’s Sculpture of the City in London, you come across something different – ‘Botanic’ by Jennifer Steinkamp with flowers blowing above your head, colliding with each other and against the buildings. Then you discover one of the City’s hidden secrets, the Garden at 120 Fenchurch Street. Hush; no-one knows about it […]
The fine collection of Sir Thomas William Holbourne (1793-1874) must always have been constrained within its building. His collection full of treasures including porcelain, silver, glass and bronzes plus paintings by Gainsborough, Guardi, Stubbs, Zophany and others became Bath’s first art gallery when the collection was donated to the people of Bath and, in 1916, […]
"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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