Spencer de Grey has taken charge of the Architecture Room at the Royal Academy this summer. With a theme of sustainability in its widest sense – societal, environmental, economic and creating great buildings that enhance the urban environment and create great spaces – the Weston Room is piled high with projects. At one end are […]
Standing 7-metres (21 ft) tall, the immense male torso, with its organs partially exposed, faces across to the Lloyds Building, designed by Richard Rogers which too has its organs exposed, albeit in a different way in the distribution of its building services. The cleverly-located “Temple” by Damien Hirst is one of the centrepieces of this […]
The “Cheesegrater”, officially called the Leadenhall Building, completed this week ready for its tenants and restauranteurs to move into the fit-out stage. One of the highest quality of recent buildings in the City of London, with a high quality of materials and detailing that you would expect from Richard Rogers of Rogers Stirk Harbour […]
Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners have published their proposals for a new major football stadium in Caracas, Venezuela. Rogers’ architecture has often made good use of colour and, taking references from local architecture, this has a brightly coloured roof, though much simpler than Frank Gehry’s project in Panama. RSHP have prepared a masterplan for the […]
"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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