American artist Sarah Sze, though in a different way to Carlos Garaicoa, whose exhibition has been next door at Parasol Unit, also considers the links between decay in the physical world to change in society in her exhibition ‘Paints a Picture’. While outside in the garden all is calm, with a hammock in which to […]
The area between Angel and Hoxton in London is a mass of building sites as this area is gradually redeveloped, taking advantage of the canals which provide fingers of water onto which many of the new residential apartments will face. In amongst this redevelopment are two old, but transformed, warehouse buildings, Nos 14 and 16 […]
"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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