Swirling landscapes reflect the beauty of the natural world and its fragility as earlier in the year Australia experienced immense bushfires while England had some of the worse flooding in a generation from record rainfalls and, meantime, the impact of climate change is all around us, not least in the shrinking of the ice caps […]
In a weekend where London has been brought to a standstill by the climate-change activists Extinction Rebellion, Icelandic artist Katrin Fridriks catches the mood of the moment to save our world for future generations. She paints in a similar, but more dynamic, effect to those wonderful photographs which capture an impossibly fast moment in time, […]
What do you do if you have an art gallery in London during the relatively quiet summer period, where the serious collectors are off on their yachts to the Mediterranean? Some galleries just shut up shop and give their staff a well-earned break, Sotheby’s auction house in Old Bond Street has the decorators in, […]
"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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