Out in the Somerset countryside, with the fields turning yellow in the heatwave of the 2018 summer, there is something strange in the landscape floating behind a sea of plants which move slowly in the wind, with what could be circular yellow footsteps leading to it at the top of the hill. Is it something […]
A giant semi-translucent boulder has appeared in Kensington Gardens London, with the opening of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radić. Is it a boulder or a shell? Or both? Externally it appears as a huge boulder sitting on quarry stones, but close up it appears as a shell with a thin […]
The Serpentine Gallery pavilion is one of the highlights of the artistic summer in London. It allows the selected architect to create a small jewel in the landscape of Kensington Gardens. The Gallery has announced the designer of this year’s pavilion as Smiljan Radic from Santiago, who will create what appears to be a flying […]
"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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