Perhaps it is fortunate that a bomb destroyed the east wing of the old Guy’s Hospital at London Bridge in the Second World War, thus enabling rebuilding with reasonably flexible space free of historic constraints inside a reconstruction of the original façade. The wing has now been transformed as the Science Gallery, one of South […]
While light is streaming in through the stained glass windows, the walls and ceiling of the elegant 18th century space is covered in blood as is the marble statue at the entrance. It is perhaps appropriate that this is the chapel of a hospital, and one that was originally founded to treat incurables, where blood […]
While Thomas Heatherwick’s Garden Bridge over the Thames continues to plough through stormy waters, a new and different garden appeared in front of his boilerhouse cladding at Guy’s Hospital at London Bridge – in an old unused London phone box, which also sits under the shadow of Renzo Piano’s Shard and Guy’s Hospital Tower. Part of a London […]
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London has its great parks but, like any city which has developed over the centuries, there are uninspiring and unloved spaces left over from past building development which, to those who can spot the potential, can become areas for relaxation, enjoyment and imaginative improvement to the urban environment; the most stimulating of these involve collaborations […]
"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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