Yesterday evening, I chaired an event at the Science Gallery at King’s College London at London Bridge, with the statue of Thomas Guy in the courtyard and his body in the chapel nearby. During the First World War, in 1915, Henry Lamb (1883-1960) completed his training as a doctor at Guy’s Hospital. Immediately prior to […]
What is it between the English and the French? While the Scots had a civilised and peaceful relationship with the French, going back to the Auld Alliance of 1295 (although it was in part aimed at controlling English territorial ambitions), the English and the French have been fighting each other for centuries. The picturesque […]
A century ago, one of the worst international conflicts came to an end. Of the 65 million involved in the war, some 8.5 million were killed, 21.2 million were injured, and 7.8 million were wounded or missing. A power struggle between the different participants, the scale of the deaths and injuries was phenomenal, yet pointless, […]
Melancholy musical sounds permeate the main galleries, adding a haunting sound to the historic portraits by artists such as Antony van Dyke, the Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Henry Moore’s stone and bronze sculptures, David Hockney’s double-portrait paintings and sculptures by Jacob Epstein and Anthony Caro. The building prevents the sound reaching its furthest corners, so the room […]
"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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