The entrance may today look relatively grand, though perhaps a little unusual in the expensive property world of Mayfair, squashed as it is between two taller buildings, but 13 Carlos Place was once the brick back wall of the squash courts of the rather grand house at 47 Grosvenor Square built in 1924 to designs […]
What happened to those relaxing times, before the fast pace of modern life with constant emails and power showers, when we had time for long luxurious lingering baths overflowing with bubbles, with a good book to read, the radio playing soothing music and a favourite cocktail to hand. Irving Penn captured this lost world in his […]
While it may not officially be called that (as yet), it’s London Photography Week this week. Photo London 2016 opened at Somerset House on the same day that Phillips held an auction of masterpieces of 20th and 21st photography, while the finalists for the Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize continues on show at the Photographers’ […]
Was 1964 one of those years in which the world turned on its axis and changed for ever? Did the people living at the time (like me) realise the changes that were happening they hung around the juke boxes in cafes or sat up in their bedroom with friends playing the latest pop music? In […]
"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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