I’m off! I’ve had enough of Brexit, elections, climate change. I’ve got my ticket booked and I’m moving ……. to Mar I’m not quite sure how I get there or what to expect, but Elon Musk has plans and architects including Foster + Partners, Hassell, SEArch+ and others have been designing community building and homes […]
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 […]
A nice touch as you enter the newly refurbished and extended Norton Museum in Palm Beach, Florida, on the wall of acknowledgements it says in the characteristic font which has been used throughout the Museum: ‘FOSTER & PARTNERS 2019 – NORMAN FOSTER, FECIT’. Opened earlier this month, on the 9th of February, the relatively simple, […]
The Imperial War Museum in London had a major redevelopment about 30 years ago after a study into future options considered, among others, relocation to Bankside or Battersea Power Stations, but it was decided to remain and redevelop in its original home. At that time, the redevelopment proposals were not without controversy because of […]
"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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