Given London’s reputation as an international centre of design creativity, it is surprisingly that it has not held a biennale until now. The first Design Biennale has arrived, at last, at Somerset House with designers from 37 counties presenting a wide variety of views on the world, and of utopia and sustainability, from the need for people to […]
Smooth, shiny and sensuous, while distorting and disrupting. Reflecting the visitor moving around, changing shape and size and colour, creating new images on the mirror-polished surfaces. Solid surfaces become fluid and appear to bend light, blending into and reflecting their surroundings, whether the canals of Venice or a white-walled gallery in London. In other works, steel sheets join together […]
"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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