Canary Wharf has had an invasion of people who are far from the stereotypical smart white-shirted, suited financial experts that fill the banking floors of the towering buildings rising up from the public spaces. On the piazza outside One Canada Square, Sean Henry’s ‘Standing Man’ looks out while inside the grand architecture of the Lobby […]
Our civilisation is in flux. It’s not Brexit that will have the largest impact – that will soon be the past and it is the future that we need to look to – AI, VR, the successor to the ipad, digital technology and changing computerisation. Many artists are embracing new technology in innovative ways, moving […]
A solitary door stands half-open in its frame in the church gardens of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, perhaps hinting of another spiritual world that could be found by the City workers or Polish builders sitting in the gardens if they were brave enough to push it open and enter through it. The opening door also announces the […]
"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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