Gorillas are angrily beating their chests or about to forcefully throw oil drums in retaliation for the harm humans have caused by global warming and environmental destruction, pandas are chewing bamboo which may soon be in short supply, panthers are prowling, bears are exploring, wolves are howling, crocodiles are snapping….wild animals are taking back Mayfair. […]
Renaissance altarpieces were normally the grand centrepiece of chapels with no connection to the outside world, apart from light flowing gently from high level windows. In contrast, Monique Frydman’s “Polyptyque Sassetta”, a delicately-coloured homage to the work of Renaissance artist Stefano di Giovanni is set against windows which give views out to the peaceful reflective […]
"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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