A pleasant summer’s day in north London, though the environment around the north side of City Road is gritty, urban and uninviting, with a standard prefabricated drive-through McDonalds full of builders from the new residential blocks being built all around. A long queue snakes up Wharf Road under the projecting balconies of the new developments, to […]
Japanese design achieves emotion, connection and refinement from the minimum of shape, line and colour; Japanese ceramics have incredible beauty with their perfectly proportioned shapes, free of fuss and elaboration; Japanese landscapes bring the outside world into the home and place natural materials in zen gardens where nature provides a relaxing contemplative environment as 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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