In 1962, Jackie Kennedy extensively renovated and refurbished the White House, installing a 19th century hand-printed wallpaper ‘Les Vues de L’Amerique du Nord’, which is still made by the French firm Zuber & Cie, in the Diplomatic Room where it has acted as the backdrop to events with foreign dignitaries and press conferences ever since. […]
At 8am in the morning, the normally bustling Oxford Street is remarkably quiet and empty, with little activity but street-sweepers and rubbish collectors clearing away the debris from the day before, drivers in vans delivering new goods to restock the shops, cafes and restaurants for the day ahead and commuters spilling out of the underground […]
In 2014, fire ripped through the Glasgow School of Art destroying Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s iconic art nouveau library in which Glasgow artist Nathan Coley (born 1967) no doubt spent many hours when he studied at the Glasgow School of Art between 1985 and 1989: “We were in Paris, and had just finished lunch when my brother messaged […]
Why have the usual Christmas lights when you can do better and have an illuminated forest – an art installation which also celebrates sustainability? At Olympic Park a forest of 14 giant ‘Frozen Trees’ has sprung up, Created from 1,296 reusable and recyclable IKEA plastic bag dispensers, the illuminated “Trees” are planted in the southern […]
"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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