It’s London Design Week, with the newest and most innovative designs from across the world on show at venues across London, including 100% Design at Olympia and Design Junction at King’s Cross, reinforcing London’s credentials as the design capital of the world. At Phillip’s, over a century of modern design from Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s chair […]
Tonight’s Evening Standard (Friday March 4th 2016) quite rightly blows the trumpet for £1.2 million of grants being given from the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund to 85 grass-root groups across 23 London Boroughs tackling poverty and social issues in deprived housing estates in London, bringing the total grants given by the Fund since 2010 to […]
If you are a modern or contemporary art collector, this is the week you need to be in London as Phillips, Sotheby’s, Bonhams and Christies all compete for your attention and your credit card. In Berkeley Square, Leger’s sculpture “La Fleur qui marche” is running across the winter lawn towards Phillips which has three floors bursting with […]
Contemporary art can be shown to advantage in a variety of settings from modern to historic and two new galleries – within walking distance of each other in Mayfair, London – reinforce this, adding to the variety of international art spaces in the city, but also in their own way breaking current trends in galley […]
"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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