Spencer de Grey has taken charge of the Architecture Room at the Royal Academy this summer. With a theme of sustainability in its widest sense – societal, environmental, economic and creating great buildings that enhance the urban environment and create great spaces – the Weston Room is piled high with projects. At one end are […]
There are ghosts here, so beware as you tread the slippery stairs down into another world, a world of darkness, of ancient and dark brick vaults, dripping water and old cells, once alive with chatter when it was full of criminals waiting trial at the nearby Middlesex Sessions House. You can imaging Charles Dickens visiting […]
The Brutalist Purcell Room and the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank was opened in 1967, sharing a large foyer off the network of concrete terraces and walkways that move in and around the South Bank. Outside children are running in and out of the fountains that fill the terrace, enjoying the cool water […]
Clerkenwell in the east end of London is awash with architects, designers, buyers and students hunting the latest design trends, innovations and products. Clerkenwell Design Week 2015, now in its sixth year, is better than ever, reinforcing how this area of London has been regenerated as a “Design District” blending with “Tech City” around Old […]
Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is in the process of a major capital investment plan to radically improve and modernise its estate. The £55 million new Business School and Student Hub, opened in 2012, was the university’s most significant new building project since the 1960s, replacing an outdated building elsewhere in the city. Designed by Feilden […]
"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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