Past generations of politicians relied on their careers on supporting the country and ensuring future prosperity. Today we seem to be in a world of religious zealots who don’t listen to their voters: Brexit is hard Brexit and who cares what happens to Britain in the next few years. I’ll be ok, but you might all be […]
As the eyes of the world focus on sporting achievements at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, the masterplan for the next phase of the long term development of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, created for the 2012 London Olympics, is on view in Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics centre. The proposed new Cultural and Education District is an ambitious […]
A photographic view of a quiet art gallery, but it is not the art which is being photographed but rather it is the few viewers recorded by Marta Barina from the Camberwell College of Art, catching their reactions and the emotions in a fleeting moment of time as they stand alone looking at an unknown painting […]
Once again, the architectural students at Central St Martins show their talent and imaginative ideas in the Degree Show which opened today. Attention is focussed on real life issues – how to provide affordable housing and strengthen the environment and social cohesion in Camden, Thamesmead, Croydon, Hackney Wick and the seaside town of Margate in […]
Fashion models going up stairs, fashion models going down stairs. “Separates” in the Lethaby Gallery brings the work of Central Saint Martins (CSM) 2016 MA Fashion graduates to the public in the Granary at King’s Cross, following a show at London Fashion Week in February. Showing the talent and enterprise of these students in a […]
"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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