At dusk on a winter’s night, the blank white windows contrast eerily with the dark brickwork of this former industrial building; inside it is reversed – the windows project the dark colour of the night sky against the white walls of the gallery spaces. It is interesting to see how different these spaces look at […]
In 2016, the German photographer Peter Lindbergh was invited to photograph the bronze and plaster sculptures in the world’s largest collection of work by Alberto Giacometti, many of which are currently on loan to Tate Modern for their current retrospective of Giacometti’s work. Running in parallel with the Tate Modern exhibition, the pure white gallery […]
On February 7th 1992, representatives of twelve countries, including the United Kingdom, assembled in Maastricht to sign the treaty that established the European Union. With the solemnity of the occasion, and the celebrations afterwards, did anyone notice the bold flower arrangements in the room, created from flowers from all around the world including, appropriately, the […]
"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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