Swirling overhead, embracing visitors to the gallery, the curved structure swoops up and down, representing the airflow around the Handley Page aircraft suspended within it, reflected also in the curved patterns of the flooring. Dame Zaha Hadid trained initially in mathematics before architecture, and it is therefore highly appropriate that her practice should have transformed part […]
The photographers T & R Annan & Sons Ltd made a photographic record of Glasgow in the 1850’s. Over a decade later, Nick Hedges travelled to Glasgow and other industrial cities – Liverpool, Birmingham and Belfast. Sadly, he recorded very similar scenes of poverty and slum conditions of children living in housing with damp and insanitary conditions […]
Science doesn’t stand still. CERN – “the world’s greatest experiment” – is in the news for three reasons at the moment. Most importantly, five years after the the large Hadron Collider, buried deep under the border between Switzerland, started to reveal the fundamental building blocks of our universe, plans were announced by scientists at a […]
"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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