Looking to design a hotel experience that is more individual and more stimulating than the standard solution, to create a stylish home from home for the overnight traveller? If so, the edited show Sleep & Eat was the place for ideas from the richly decadent and decorated to the sleek and sophisticated, with new technology […]
No longer does the standard uninspiring exhibition hall coffee and sandwich bar suffice, especially for an international design event. To be successful, design exhibitions need good pop-up cafes, bars and restaurants which show leading trends and use the best of contemporary furniture, lighting and innovative design in addition to providing superb food, coffee and cocktails […]
The demolition of Victor Horta’s Maison du Peuple (“House of the People”) in Brussels in 1965 was one of the greatest losses of his work. Opened in April 1899, the building was a masterpiece of experimental art noveau, containing more than 600,000 kg of ironwork. Demolition went ahead despite international protests and the building was […]
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, the designer Matthieu Lehanneur has created the “Café Artscience” located at 650 East Kendall Street between the world-class universities of Harvard and MIT. The concept is to create a “space of exchange” with a restaurant, an auditorium, a bar, a shop and an art gallery. The 1000 m² space is designed […]
Interior designer Briony Fitzgerald and architect Stuart Forbes Associates have transformed half of the the ground floor of the New Wing in Somerset House into a light stylish interior for Spring, the first solo restaurant venture for Australian chef Skye Gyngell. The original features of the former 19th century dining room have been restored and […]
"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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