The Hayward Gallery opened 50 years ago in 1968. Its recent refurbishment by Feilden Clegg Bradley was so sensitive to the original building that visitors probably don’t even realise it happened, having kept the essential character of the brutalist concrete architecture intact, cleaned it up and restored blacked-out roof-lights to allow more (controlled) daylight into […]
Once one of London’s most elegant streets, with Georgian townhouses on either side, Dover Street in Mayfair was developed in the late 17th and 18th centuries by a syndicate headed by Sir Thomas Bond (after whom Bond Street is named) on land formerly occupied by Clarendon House. At that time the properties backed on to […]
"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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