If history had been different, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection might today be in London rather than Venice. Between January 1938 and June 1939, Peggy Guggenheim – a self-confessed art addict and one of the first gallerists in London – ran her gallery Guggenheim Juene at 30 Cork Street in Mayfair, often purchasing work herself from […]
The smooth, finely grained and soft rock alabaster is relatively easy to carve and allows the light to shine through it so that its grain and texture can be celebrated. Much prized by the Egyptians in the making of canopic jars and other objects for burials, it was used for windows in Byzantine and Medieval […]
"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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