The timber steps are worn down with generations of workmen carrying tools, materials and finished products up and down the staircase. Close your eyes and you can hear them shouting at each other above the noise of machinery and hammering and, perhaps, the odd gunshot. Originally a 18th century family home with a ground floor […]
Fighting his way through the urban jungle of Soho, the intrepid explorer climbs up and discovers a brightly-lit clearing full of colourful rock totems on grey plinths. Are these a relic from a previous civilisation or are they natural rocks which have been moulded by the wind and by weathering? But wait! – the rocks […]
Is the area between Piccadilly Circus and Carnaby Street, on the edge of Soho in London, becoming the new area for art galleries as former warehouse and manufacturing buildings are discovered and renovated, providing light, airy, flexible spaces only five minutes away from the more traditional locations around Cork Street and Bond Street in Mayfair? […]
London’s leading place in the international contemporary art world was strengthened last year by the opening of two new galleries – S2 by Sotheby’s In George Street, which recently held the Banksy retrospective exhibition, and Sadie Coles HQ in Kingly Street, Soho. Opening last September, Sadie Cole HQ’s new gallery supplements the existing two London […]
"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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