Clerkenwell was again flooded with interior, furniture and product designers, buyers, artists and architects for last week’s Clerkenwell Design Week, which continues to grow from strength to strength and reinforces the area as the UK’s premier centre for design, the importance of which the Government has yet to realise as it charges into Brexit negotiations. […]
Although the church of St James in Clerkenwell, London, has an old and colourful history, in 1788 an Act of Parliament was passed to replace the unsatisfactory aggregation of buildings with a new modern church designed by James Carr in the style of Sir Christopher Wren and James Gibbs. Dedicated in 1792 with upper galleries […]
"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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