One of the best spaces in the new extension of Tate Modern is the ‘Artist’s Room’ space on the 4th floor, immediately alongside the bridge across to the old building. I always wonder if creating this space was part of the original architect’s brief or it came as a happy accident. Here, with one of […]
Elegant, artistic, pleasurable staircases are back. Having been hidden away behind banks of lifts, the architectural and artistic value of staircases has again been recognised – as has the enjoyment of using them as they allow light and transparency between the floors of buildings in a way in which those hidden staircases do not. William […]
"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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