It is many years since I visited Cannizaro Park – and that was for an open-air summer concert, so I didn’t really explore the park which probably is at its best in the spring when the magnificent collection of azaleas and rhododendrons is in full bloom. On arriving at the house you discover the Millennium […]
In 1885-6, a young Scottish architect William Flockhart, who had trained at the Glasgow School of Art, remodelled two Georgian town houses at 108 Brompton Road in South Kensington with a new Flemish-style facade and large well-lit studios for the court photographers Elliot and Fry. Later occupants included the sculptor Cecil Thomas and architect and […]
"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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