This month saw celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the opening up of the Berlin Wall which since 1961 had split Berlin and divided families and friends. Within a year of opening, demolition of the wall was underway and East and West Germany were reunited. At the end of the Second World War, as part […]
As you walk down Northumberland Avenue, you glance through the windows at what looks like a demolition site, a space in transition, with rubble and debris on the floor. Sometimes you go to an art exhibition which is quite challenging and this is the case at the Korea Cultural Centre with its 2019 Open Call […]
The preparations are almost complete – on the 9th of February, competitors will assemble in the Olympic stadium in PyeongChang for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, to be repeated a month later with the competitors for the Paralympics, ready for a world-class celebration of winter sports. The tiger Soohoran and his friend […]
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, […]
"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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