I last visited the Pallant House Gallery many years ago, just after the new extension, and I had forgotten what an excellent modern art gallery it is – a surprising and pleasant find in Chichester where you don’t expect to find such an excellent gallery of modern art in a historic town, most famous for […]
As railways expanded across Europe in the 19th century expansion, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin was built to designs of Friedrich Neuhaus in 1846/47 as the terminus of the Berlin-Hamburg railway. Today it remains one of the oldest railway terminus buildings in Germany and, like the Musee d’Orsey in Paris, has been given a new use as a modern art […]
"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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