Sitting on top of a footbridge over one of the City of London’s busiest streets, there is something strange and unexpected – a Hanok-style Korean house has landed on top of the footbridge as if it has dropped out of the sky, like the famous scene in The Wizard of Oz. Do Ho Su’s ‘Bridging […]
There is a unknown narrow alley that cuts across between Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street, easy to miss, its rough stone walls reminiscent of a prison rather than a historic city alley. Surprise, surprise; it is now an artwork ‘The Great Escape’ probably the most difficult to find in this year’s programme of public art […]
At dusk on a winter’s night, the blank white windows contrast eerily with the dark brickwork of this former industrial building; inside it is reversed – the windows project the dark colour of the night sky against the white walls of the gallery spaces. It is interesting to see how different these spaces look at […]
"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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