Now semi-derelict and, though the existing building dates from around 1900, the Bargehouse has had quite a history from King James I’s Royal Barge House to a meatpacking warehouse and is now a popular venue for contemporary art and design exhibitions, with contemporary work contrasting against the old crumbling building. This week, several designers are […]
It almost makes you want to give up and throw your smartphone into the River Thames, such is the quality of the finalists on show in the Bargehouse for the 2018 Blueprint Architectural Awards . The textures, the shadows, the contrast between black and white, showing different aspects of architecture, urbanisation and the impact on […]
If the grey hulking mass of the former Central St Martin’s Building in Southampton Row, London has ghosts of its former students and staff walking through the empty rooms, left almost as they were when the doors were closed and the School moved to its magnificent new building at King’s Cross, then they would be […]
"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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