Looking to design a hotel experience that is more individual and more stimulating than the standard solution, to create a stylish home from home for the overnight traveller? If so, the edited show Sleep & Eat was the place for ideas from the richly decadent and decorated to the sleek and sophisticated, with new technology […]
The Queen-Anne style Cadogan Hotel opened in Sloane Street in 1887, to designs of H B Brace, subsequently expanding into the buildings at the rear. The best rooms overlook Cadogan Place Gardens, which guests are allowed to use, and it was in one of these rooms that in 1895 the writer and poet Oscar Wilde, […]
Goodbye to the brown and beige ubiquitous hotel bedroom, with a coloured throw at the bottom of the bed, a couple of cushions to decorate the pillows and picture of some local historic buildings on the wall to remind you which city you are staying in. It’s all so loved by the chains of hotels […]
What do you want from a hotel? For the rich and famous, it may be an extensive and expensive suite in which to entertain friends. For the backpacker, it is somewhere cheap and cheerful in a central location. For the young (or not so young) entrepreneur, it is a temporary business headquarters. Citizen M, along […]
The Beaumont Hotel, which opened a year ago, is the first hotel from the restauranteurs Corbin and King who are the inspiration behind such London restaurants as the Wolseley and the Delaunay. The art deco-façade of the original 1920’s building has been retained and provides the inspiration for the rich art-deco interiors inside. An artistic addition is […]
"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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