With a timeless classical style, it is surprising that the Museum of Fine Arts in St Petersburg in Florida was built in the early 1960’s, in contrast to the Brutalist architecture of, say, the Hayward Gallery in London which was opened only a few years later. A more modern extension was opened in 2008, designed […]
Following a design competition, St Petersburg City Council has approved the Pier Park design by ASD/Rogers Partners/Ken Smith Landscape Architect to replace the existing iconic 1970’s pier with a new structure that expands further into Tampa Bay and includes a new crystalline building. The vote doesn’t however guarantee that Pier Park will be built as a […]
In Glasgow in Scotland, the historic Govanhill Baths are gradually being brought into a new community use. Over 4000 miles away in St Petersburg in Florida another swimming pool lies empty with proposals for a new community use, this time as a music venue. The historic YMCA building was built in Spanish style in 1926 at […]
"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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