Imagine a race – one team running as fast as they can to capture and organise data; the other running at the same speed to find the data and set it free. This is the race that Simon Denny explores in the brick-vaulted rooms of the Magazine, the former gunpowder store built in 1805 in […]
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, the designer Matthieu Lehanneur has created the “Café Artscience” located at 650 East Kendall Street between the world-class universities of Harvard and MIT. The concept is to create a “space of exchange” with a restaurant, an auditorium, a bar, a shop and an art gallery. The 1000 m² space is designed […]
Two recent science prizes for innovative product designs are “Wristify”, winner of MIT’s annual materials-science design competition and the “Titan Arm”,winner of the annual James Dyson Award. Titan Arm is a battery-powered robotic power-boost designed by four mechanical engineering students from the University of Pennsylvania which could help people with back injuries rebuild and regain […]
"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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