Where in Mayfair could you have an exhibition of Rolls Royce Phantom cars on two different floor levels? Yes, around Park Lane and Berkeley Square there are luxury car showrooms opening onto the street at ground floor level, but it is to the credit of Bonham’s and architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands that in the £30 […]
As the eyes of the world focus on sporting achievements at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, the masterplan for the next phase of the long term development of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, created for the 2012 London Olympics, is on view in Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics centre. The proposed new Cultural and Education District is an ambitious […]
When my mother was a girl, she used to swim regularly in the Thames at Chiswick. In those days the water was much cleaner than it is today, but swimming in the Thames may be making a comeback. On Saturday 30th of August, the Great Swim takes place, with options for a mile or half […]
"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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