Twentieth century urban planning has not been good to Edgware Road in London – the start of the busy road north that joins to the AI and thence to Scotland, when transport planners ruled the roost and created the flyover high above the road taking traffic out west, eventually to the M40 and thence to […]
We are so used to the nude being part of mainstream art that we forget that there was a period when this was not the case. The nude was celebrated in classical Greece and Rome but in the Celtic, Gothic and Medieval worlds, bodies were clothed and covered up. Nudity was kept for depictions of […]
Arundel Great Court was an immense Brutalist mixed use complex of offices and hotel designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd & Partners and built from 1971-6 running from the Embankment all the way up to the Strand. At its heart was a courtyard, originally proposed to be opened to the public, but was closed off long […]
Richard Deacon sits alongside Antony Caro as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary sculptors. While Caro worked in sheets of metal to create jagged geometrical sculptural forms, Deacon uses laminated timber, steel and ceramics to create forms that twist, turn, interconnect and flow, such that you can’t find the start and, with the larger ones, you […]
"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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