The preparations are almost complete – on the 9th of February, competitors will assemble in the Olympic stadium in PyeongChang for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, to be repeated a month later with the competitors for the Paralympics, ready for a world-class celebration of winter sports. The tiger Soohoran and his friend […]
In among the classical buildings around Trafalgar Square in London, it is unusual to find an arts space with an experimental flexible shell with all the services exposed. This, however, is the gallery space in the Korean Cultural Centre, with the added benefit of windows connecting with passers-by on the ground floor and allowing daylight into […]
Technical innovation and new artistic designs continue to drive the development of new football boots and running shoes and are shown off in the pop-up laboratories which launch new designs. Adidas recently celebrated the skill of Leo Messi in their new football boots ‘Pibe de barr10′, designed in collaboration with the graphic artist Ignacio Valentini […]
Government response to the proposal for up to 40 Garden Cities from URBED’s David Rudlin, winner of the 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize has been lukewarm with Housing Minister Brandon Lewis advising that such proposals would not be government policy, albeit he also confirmed that the Government is backing a Garden City proposal at Ebbsfleet and […]
"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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