The Queen-Anne style Cadogan Hotel opened in Sloane Street in 1887, to designs of H B Brace, subsequently expanding into the buildings at the rear. The best rooms overlook Cadogan Place Gardens, which guests are allowed to use, and it was in one of these rooms that in 1895 the writer and poet Oscar Wilde, […]
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s reputation as an architect is linked primarily to his designs for churches and cathedrals and for Gothic-revival masterpieces such as the Midland Station Hotel at St Pancras Station and the main buildings for the University of Glasgow. Early in his career, in his early 30’s, he explored a castellated style for […]
"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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