Home to a collection which ranges from some of the finest Dutch paintings by artists such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Johannes Vermeer to Gerrit Rietvelt’s iconic chair and a fighter plane from World War I, the refurbished Rijksmuseum is an exemplar of restoring and enhancing original interiors while adding new contemporary spaces, lighting and […]
Standing like the prow of a ship, Renzo Piano’s Science Exploratorium (it cannot be called a museum) projects into the harbour in a thrusting building which contains five floors of interactive and hand-on science activities for children (old and young) underneath at large piazza which rises from ground level up to the café at the […]
It is almost 430 years since the death of the Spanish painter Luis de Morales on 9 May 1586 yet his paintings have a freshness and colour that makes them feel much more modern. Stylistically, they follow the Italian Renaissance painters such Leonardo, with less softness to the features, a trait which can be seen […]
While the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Crafts Council pose the question “What is luxury” in their current exhibition, the new display of the Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum goes some way to defining it. The Waddesdon Bequest is a collection of almost 300 objects of exquisite craftsmanship left to the Museum in […]
"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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