Outside, everything looks calm, classical and controlled, with taxis taking a short cut to cut off the corner that saves them a few seconds at the traffic lights. Inside, the white walls are covered in minimalist coloured art (black being a colour) by the likes of Richard Serra, Lucio Fontana (who is also on show […]
The long ramp from the city is guarded by a huge dog, protecting and guiding strangers down to the entrance around which are towers of stone and titanium like the protective armour of an armadillo. On the other side facing the river, a moat provides protection, with mystical mists and fiery flames blasting upwards to […]
"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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