Is there something about the month of May, when spring starts to move into summer, when the dark winter gives way to bright sunshine? This month, in May 2018, students in French universities are demonstrating and visitors to the Pantheon will notice the police at the entrance to the nearby Law Faculty and Library at […]
The Conciergerie has a bloody history – once part of a royal palace, the Palais de la Cité, the Conciergerie claimed greatest fame during the French Revolution when it was the prison from which many were transported to their execution, including Marie Antoinette herself. Today it is a museum focussed on that terrible period of […]
Large areas of London have been destroyed, and burnt-out stonework and empty windows stand ruined against the sky with views to St Paul’s Cathedral which survived the Blitz in 1942 and represented the spirit of the British people during the darkest hours of the Second World War as recorded by photographer Wolfgang Suschitzky whose earlier photographs […]
I M Pei’s Pyramid at the Musée du Louvre has more than proved its value. Opened in 1989 for planned visitor numbers of 4 million per annum, it now has to cope with almost 10 million though it struggles to do so, while the main courtyard area provides an important public space for Paris during […]
"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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