In the good old days before tax became a dark, centralised and ever-more complex art, (despite politicians always saying that they are going to simplify things), when decisions were transparent and made with local involvement in decision making, the British Parliament in 1852 passed legislation to create a new public library and museum/art gallery in […]
A tree of surveillance cameras in the city centre drawing attention to the invasion of privacy, breaches of civil and human rights and state corruption in the modern world, linked to the humming sound of the electrical grid used as a surveillance tool and now available on-line (which could drive someone demented listening to it), a fountain […]
It’s a hard act to follow when one of your neighbours won the Carbuncle Cup for the worse new building in the UK in 2009 and another was the runner up in 2011. Formerly derelict warehouses and dock buildings, Mann Island has been a difficult challenge next to the historic “Three Graces” while also trying to undo […]
The actor Mark Rylance won the Best Supporting Actor at the BAFTA’s last night for his role in “Bridge of Spies” and will be off to the Oscars on the 28th where he has been nominated for the same part. Meanwhile he has found time to speak out against the closure of libraries near his […]
"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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