Embedded into the landscape, Richard Long’s stone sculptures have a timelessness that connects the present with the past. They could have been there for ever. Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, was a great patron of the arts. It would amuse him to see the landscape of his great Palladian house, Houghton Hall, filled […]
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 […]
Outside is a sandy beach on which, when the tide is out, children will create patterns in the sand and build sandcastles and other structures, until washed away by the sea. Inside, a rake rotates continually across a circular bed of sand creating lines and then smoothing them out, over and over again, a smaller […]
Lines are everywhere. Streets are covered in them – white lines, yellow line, red lines and, in America, even more colours for parking designations. Lines of buses, lines of cars, underground lines and train lines. The world is constructed around lines of longitude and latitude as drawn on schoolboy globes. Computer imagery and design relies […]
"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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