There is a unknown narrow alley that cuts across between Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street, easy to miss, its rough stone walls reminiscent of a prison rather than a historic city alley. Surprise, surprise; it is now an artwork ‘The Great Escape’ probably the most difficult to find in this year’s programme of public art […]
Remember when, as a child, you used to create imaginary rooms from anything you could find. Perhaps you collected old wood and built a house in the garden or in the tree; perhaps you used the dining room table, piled chairs and other furniture around it and hung sheets or tablecloths over it to create […]
The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester sits in Whitworth Park, a valuable green lung now surrounded by the expanded gritty urban environment of this area of Manchester. The original building, completed in 1908 to the design of J W Beaumont in a romantic Jacobean style, has now received a new modern extension which has enabled it […]
"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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