A mass of people and vehicles jostle with each other in the constrained space with the noisy clattering of horses’ hooves on the irregular cobblestones and men and women shouting and screeching at each other to move along the tightly-crowded pavement. On the viaduct above the puffing noise and dirty smell and smoke of steam […]
If you google “Never Mind the Bollards”, you find that it has a musical history. It’s a book – a guide to England’s Rock and Roll Landmarks – and also a musical installation in 2012 with steel bollards with different tones in Chinatown Manhattan in collaboration with Neil Nisbet for Make Music New York 2012. […]
London as a world city can never stand still. While it is has an immense history to respect, it has to continually develop and improve, or it will die. London is the economic powerhouse of the UK and its future prosperity is essential for the future for the whole of the UK. New London Architecture […]
The exhibition Smarter London at the Building Centre, London explores how data, technology and computer analytics are changing the way the building, transport and environmental professions design, build and manage a complex and growing 21st century city such as London. It illustrates a variety of “smart projects” in London from a wide range of organisations […]
"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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