You might think that only the British would do something as apparently mad and eccentric as collecting, cataloguing and preserving plant seeds. It seems, however, that we are not alone; there are apparently over 1000 seed banks across the world, albeit many are specialised, including the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway opened in 2008, […]
"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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