I wonder how many people sitting out in the sunshine realise what a hidden treasure is inside the relatively brick building tucked away to one side of the square. The outside may be relatively plain, but the inside is an astonishing riot of decoration. The old Middlesex Hospital closed in 2005 and was demolished in […]
One of the questions which was not really discussed in detail at the London Real Estates Forum this week is how, in areas such as Fitzrovia, can the traditional character and identity with many small independent art galleries be retained as developers such as Derwent inevitably redevelop their properties, for example at 80 Charlotte Street. Recently, […]
In 1863, John Curwen started producing books, posters and music manuscripts. Some time later, in 1920, Oliver Simon joined the company and forged links between Curwen and the Royal College of Art which turned Curwen Press into ‘an agent of cultural change’, commissioning work from leading artists including Edward Bawden, Claud Lovat Fraser, Paul Nash […]
How many commuters and shoppers, busy to reach their destinations from the tube or the buses, walk past murals without noticing them, especially when they lose their initial vibrancy or suffer from the graffiti of other street artists? Commuters travelling to and from Goodge Street underground station may not notice the amount of detail and […]
Lazarides gallery at 11 Rathbone Place, north of Oxford Street, London is slightly blighted at the moment by construction works opposite it as the concrete cores for a huge redevelopment of 38,300m²/412,200ft², designed by Make Architects for Great Portland Estates, are progressing upwards. This 2.3 acre site previously housed the Royal Mail West End Delivery […]
"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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