There can’t be many, if any, art events on the scale of the Summer Exhibition which are still going strong after 250 years. With such a momentous anniversary and with its redevelopment project completed, the Royal Academy had to pull out all the stops this year so, who better to ask to coordinate it than […]
At 8am in the morning, the normally bustling Oxford Street is remarkably quiet and empty, with little activity but street-sweepers and rubbish collectors clearing away the debris from the day before, drivers in vans delivering new goods to restock the shops, cafes and restaurants for the day ahead and commuters spilling out of the underground […]
"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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