Streets covered in snow with people having fun playing with snowballs outside; inside two Japanese artists are five minutes apart in London, but fifty years apart in time and a generation apart in technology. Contrasting with the white snow and the dark clouds overhead, fifty years of the colourful work of Katsumi Nakai (1927-2013) shine […]
At 8am in the morning, the normally bustling Oxford Street is remarkably quiet and empty, with little activity but street-sweepers and rubbish collectors clearing away the debris from the day before, drivers in vans delivering new goods to restock the shops, cafes and restaurants for the day ahead and commuters spilling out of the underground […]
Driving along the Pan-American Highway through Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on the planet, a huge white hand suddenly rises up, like a remnant of a huge ancient sculpture that may be buried underneath the sands, waiting to be excavated. “Mano del Desierto” by Chilean artist Mario Irarrázabal was installed in 1992 to […]
"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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