It is well known that our built environment contributes to our well-being, and that there is a correlation in urban areas between high levels of pollution, ill-health and economic poverty. After the Second World War, high quality new housing estates were designed by architects such as Powell and Moya at Churchill Gardens in Pimlico, to […]
Nestling in a green landscape like a pavilion in a park, a colourful contrast to the grey car park which surrounds the towering 1970’s block of Charing Cross Hospital, Maggie’s West London is one of 17 centres at NHS cancer hospitals in the UK providing support to people with cancer and their family and friends. […]
"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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