King’s Cross continues to demonstrate what the best design-focused urban regeneration can achieve. With The Granary housing Central Saint Martin’s at its heart, expansive and interesting public spaces and a blend of new buildings by the best architects alongside refurbishments such as Thomas Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yards, King’s Cross has set a standard which others […]
What will be the toys of the future? Children just love playing with building blocks, being able to create new forms and structures from a range of shapes, hence the success of LEGO. Many children, who may be future architects or engineers, will try to pile them up into towers that challenge gravity until […]
Tom Dixon, (born in 1959), who was the Creative Designer of Habitat in the late 1990′s, has not only has just been awarded the London Design Medal, but he has contributed to make King’s Cross the creative and design district that it is today with his expansive presence in the arches of Coal Drops Yards, […]
It’s that time of year again and design explorers with their crumpled maps in hand are climbing stairs, tramping down long passages and exploring the amazing complexities of the Victoria & Albert Museum to find this year’s treasures in the 2018 London Design Festival. Starting with a 3-dimensional maze designed in Exhibition Road by Waugh […]
When 100% Design opened, I think about a decade ago, it was the leading-edge design exhibition in London. Visitors entered through colourful tunnels into an international cornucopia of design which was forward-looking and had identifiable zones covering different areas of design. Almost every stand had something new to show. Perhaps it is an indication of […]
The London Design Festival grows from strength to strength every year and is now probably at its optimum size as it is at the point where a visitor to London would find it impossible to do everything. Looking beyond the showcase exhibition areas, where the national stands, as in previous years, are the best, […]
100% Design at Olympia has grown in size, but, in doing so, it seems to have lost the focus and the innovative edge it had when it started. Today the fair ranges from high technology with virtual reality to hand-made bricks and medieval timber interiors. Perhaps there are now too many of these shows […]
Surrounded by historic tapestries, Ross Lovegrove’s immense serpent ripples through the gallery, its design inspired by the fabrics of the ladies in the medieval tapestries around it. A short walk away is the colourful stage design by Es Devlin for George Bizet’s opera Carmen to be performed on a stage in the lake at the […]
Entering through the arched doorway, a tall black pylon stretches up into the sky; black, shining and glittering with immense diamonds. Then, collecting the treasure map, it is time to check the compass, the rucksack for supplies of food and water and the walking boots to ensure that they are stout and ready for the […]
Among the highlights of the design exhibitions across London during the London Design Festival are the international celebrations of contemporary design from countries such as China and Argentine at 100% Design, Denmark at Design Junction and Norway, Korea, Sweden, Southern Italy, Ireland, Czechoslovakia and Poland at Tent/Superbrands. The concentration of a large number of exhibitors […]
"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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