Embedded into the landscape, Richard Long’s stone sculptures have a timelessness that connects the present with the past. They could have been there for ever. Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, was a great patron of the arts. It would amuse him to see the landscape of his great Palladian house, Houghton Hall, filled […]
On the lawn in front on the stone neoclassical façade is a chicken shed, a rather strange find in the centre of London, but closer inspection reveals it’s not actually a chicken shed, it’s a cast of the space inside the shed, a new sculpture from Rachel Whiteread as she continues to record buildings through […]
It seems strange now, but Green Park tube station in London was, until 1933, named Dover Street Station and it was only during a major refurbishment to install new escalators that the Dover Street entrance disappeared. This perhaps explains some of the reasons for the extensive underground walkways connecting different lines. One of Dover Street’s […]
"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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