How often do you visit a place, a building or an art exhibition and discover later that you have missed key details? One of the joys of going back again to places where you have been before is that you discover new things that you didn’t spot on previous visits. At Two Temple Place, built […]
It is always a joy to visit Messums Wiltshire with its two gallery spaces, one the stunning historical medieval barn and the other a more modern farm building, and, at the current time, a common theme of contemporary ceramics with a focus on European ceramics in Wiltshire and South Korean ceramics in London. Set against […]
Out in the Somerset countryside, with the fields turning yellow in the heatwave of the 2018 summer, there is something strange in the landscape floating behind a sea of plants which move slowly in the wind, with what could be circular yellow footsteps leading to it at the top of the hill. Is it something […]
"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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