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 […]
Imaginative and bold solutions are urgently needed to meet Britain’s future housing needs, with population growth alongside increases in the age of the population and in the number of single-person households. The Wolfson Economics Prize for 2014 has been awarded to town planner David Rudlin for his proposal to create new garden cities surrounding 40 […]
"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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