The achievement of high quality design in the higher education sector has been recognised in the Regional Finals of the 2016 RIBA Awards with around 20 projects across the country demonstrating the high quality of architecture being achieved in a wide range of facilities from student centres and libraries to high-tech biomedical research buildings. Breathing new life […]
What to do with a redundant hospital building in the heart of the city? Rather than sell it to the highest bidder for inevitable residential or hotel development, Manchester has achieved a much more imaginative solution – Citylabs, a joint initiative between development company Bruntwood and Manchester Science Parks, providing around 10,000 sq m of […]
RIBA Journal reports on Sheppard Robson’s newly completed HQ built as the latest addition to the Masdar Research Institute. Jan Carlos Kucharek considers out that this building, which achieves laudable sustainability criteria at no additional cost compared to a normal speculative office building, can be seen as a mid-point in Masdar’s journey to sustainability. Mascar […]
"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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