London has re-discovered its rooftops. It started with the “Post Office Tower” and disappeared when the revolving restaurant was closed, then re-emerged when “Tower 42″ (formerly the NatWest Tower) opened up the area around its lift shafts as a bar linked to a restaurant several floors below. Then came the “Gherkin” with its rooftop space […]
2017 will be a memorable year for the Victoria and Albert Museum as it completes its largest new building project in the museum for a century with the new Exhibition Road Building Project, details of which are currently on display alongside some of the work from the arts residency of Lain O’Connell. There has been […]
Boston in Massachusetts is breathing new life into many of its old areas. One of the most successful is the former manufacturing and warehouse district in South End, whose name SoWa (South of Washington) was first used by the developer and GTI Properties president Mario Nicosia. This area is being revitalised with an arts-led renaissance […]
"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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