When the South London Fine Art Gallery (as the South London Gallery was then called) opened in 1891, the artist Walter Crane designed a patterned inlaid wooden floor for the main hall, which still exists, concealed underneath the modern floor we see today, and the original design for which is displayed across the road in […]
The Hayward Gallery opened 50 years ago in 1968. Its recent refurbishment by Feilden Clegg Bradley was so sensitive to the original building that visitors probably don’t even realise it happened, having kept the essential character of the brutalist concrete architecture intact, cleaned it up and restored blacked-out roof-lights to allow more (controlled) daylight into […]
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 […]
Villages, towns and cities are created by the spaces – narrow alleys, streets, squares and piazzas – that join the buildings together, in which people can walk, meet, eat, drink and enjoy each other’s company. Lives are also shaped in part by the places which people have travelled through, with memories of the entrance doors, the staircases, […]
"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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