Driving over the Borders, through the hills that separate England and Scotland, with the rain pouring down like a waterfall from dark clouds that came down and enveloped the top of the hills, it is no wonder that the Romans decided to build Hadrian’s Wall across the country. Today we have the luxury of major […]
Is Europe House in Westminster the last building to display both UK and EU flags, after Teresa May sent her letter last month seeking a new relationship with the EU? Scotland and Europe have been united through culture as selected third year students from the Glasgow School of Art display their work on the theme of […]
Star fish travelling down the English Channel, up the River Thames to London and up the Rivers Rhine and Main to Frankfurt. Could Nessie the Loch Ness monster also manage to leave Loch Ness and escape into the Moray Firth, down the coast and similarly across the Channel and up the rivers to Frankfurt, to look […]
Smith Square, five minute’s walk from the Houses of Parliament, is dominated by St John’s Smith Square, the baroque church designed by Thomas Archer and completed in 1728 which was converted to a concert hall after being bombed in the Second World War. At one time the Square housed the headquarters of both the Conservative […]
"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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