Who would ever have thought that the humble toilet roll would in March 2020 become such a valuable commodity that people were buying them by their hundreds, stripping supermarket shops bare. The toilet roll as we know it is a relatively modern invention, having first been manufacture by the Scott Paper Company around 1890 […]
Robert Burns was an Exciseman. You wonder if he ever tackled the smugglers who were said to be active in the cliffs facing out to the stormy ocean before Robert Adam built his castellated masterpiece Culzean Castle. Robert Burns was born only 10 miles from Culzean Castle and the two houses of the castle and […]
Scotland has strong links with America and with a previous American President, before the recent relationship with Donald Trump. Glasgow’s wealth and prosperity in the 18th century was due to its position on the west coast, facing out to the Atlantic and across to America and the Caribbean, and, following the Union of 1707, with […]
"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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