Writers, designers and inventors have always been looking to the future, imagining what it would be like. Some, like H.G.Wells predicted inventions to come like submarines, rockets and helicopters, or perhaps they even inspired them, while the communicator device in Star Trek is said to have inspired Martin Cooper at Motorola with the development of […]
How much land in London sits wasted under major roads and motorways, dark, damp and unloved, perhaps used for car-parking or a sports centre, but otherwise sitting empty and neglected. If London’s Mayor stands any change of achieving his declared major increase in housing provision and also his support for the ongoing cultural success of London, […]
Bert & May is a sustainable flooring company based in East London, specialising in the supply and design of flooring using salvaged timber and tiles, sourced from all over Europe, plus their own designs of handmade tiles. Another part of the same group of companies is Bert and May Spaces which designs stylish homes for […]
The photographers T & R Annan & Sons Ltd made a photographic record of Glasgow in the 1850’s. Over a decade later, Nick Hedges travelled to Glasgow and other industrial cities – Liverpool, Birmingham and Belfast. Sadly, he recorded very similar scenes of poverty and slum conditions of children living in housing with damp and insanitary conditions […]
"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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