From the outside, it looks like a natural grotto with flowing curved forms. Inside, the spaces connect together like a series of underground caverns with light coming down from openings above, with glimpses out of the cave to the busy contrasting world of London outside and with shimmering lights from fish flying overhead. Water is the theme […]
Partnerships with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Tate Modern and Liberty in London, retailing is no longer about selling clothes, it is about selling a lifestyle. Uniqlo was founded less than 20 years ago with London as its first base outside Japan in 2001, and has grown in size with its […]
What is the future of retail design? Department stores and fashion shops have become ever more sophisticated with stylish over-designed interiors that emphasise luxury and quality. Would the future perhaps be the opposite – edgy derelict interiors that act as a rough counterbalance to the sophistication, innovation and quality of the designs on show. At […]
"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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