Outside is a sandy beach on which, when the tide is out, children will create patterns in the sand and build sandcastles and other structures, until washed away by the sea. Inside, a rake rotates continually across a circular bed of sand creating lines and then smoothing them out, over and over again, a smaller […]
It’s a hard act to follow when one of your neighbours won the Carbuncle Cup for the worse new building in the UK in 2009 and another was the runner up in 2011. Formerly derelict warehouses and dock buildings, Mann Island has been a difficult challenge next to the historic “Three Graces” while also trying to undo […]
Silent, majestic sentinels against the skies, standing guard over the harbour, the dark cranes remind us of the time when this was a bustling noisy harbour with dockers shouting at each other and ships fighting for the dockside space for the cranes to swing over and lift out their cargoes: tobacco from North America, spices […]
"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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