Although it looks like an old traditional pub, apparently it is a relatively modern conversion of a former shop. If so, the transformation has been well done and The Reliance feels like it has been here for ever, not least because of the rickety wooden staircase that runs up the side of the building from […]
The area around Old Street in London is awash with building contractors as the character of the area is being changed out of recognition with new developments of various different shapes, sizes and architectural styles (some better than others). Surrounded by these developments is an oasis of calm, a water garden with ducks paddling happily […]
Old Street in London is slowly improving with new property developments and the imaginative new pop-up outlets adding to the established shops within the underground station, but the environment is still pretty rough. While the Red Gallery, on a site that is ripe for redevelopment, seems now to be inactive as an arts venue apart […]
Surrounded by the building sites of the Old Street area regeneration, BEERS London has established its art gallery in a building which now seems restrained in contrast to the tall blocks emerging everywhere around it and internally is a simple cool simple white box in for art. The Gallery works with emerging and established artists […]
An unexpected find in the fast-changing area of Old Street, London, is The Ceviche Old Street Gallery which displays a changing exhibition of the work of Peru’s best contemporary artists – Miguel Aguirre, Fernando Bryce, Alice Wagner, Mariano Vivanco and others on the walls of the Ceviche Old Street restaurant where you can enjoy Peruvian contemporary […]
"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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