Brick Lane on a Sunday is a street of contrasts. At the South end, coming from the underground station Aldgate East, very few restaurants, galleries or shops are open. It is a Sunday after all! Then, progressively towards the old Truman’s Brewery, things liven up. There are more shops open, a food street market, a Vintage […]
Bricks made of thrown-away rubbish, concrete blocks for facades that can generate electricity through photosynthetic dots, cladding that moves organically to respond to changes in daylight, a new material made from captured CO2, building materials made from mushroom mycelium, recycled oyster shells, husks of corn or reconstructed polystyrene, paint composed of natural lime (as it […]
"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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