What role can design play in the future of society? The commercial world of “designer labels” which is coming under increasing challenge by jaded consumers; however good design can promote change and improve accessibility and support social issues such as immigration or good health. Good design can be a robotic surgeon or a flatpack-refugee shelter, […]
At night, at the heart of Imperial College in South Kensington, London, the 85 metre-high blue-floodlit tower of the Queen’s Tower acts as a beacon from miles around, a celebration not only of the College’s international importance in science, technology and medicine, but also of the old Imperial Institute, opened in 1893. In 1982, already […]
In his 2016 Christmas address, the Pope discussed the tension at Christmas between the spiritual and religious meaning of Christmas and all-pervading 21st century commercialism, supported by the media which at times appears to have only one interest – how much people are spending in shops compared to previous years (apparently the new measure of […]
The display floors of Phillips’s Auction House in Berkeley Square are bursting out with masterpieces of modern design from late 19th century to the 21st in advance of the “Design” auction on the evening of the 27th and the fund-raising auction “Time for Design” on the 28th for the Design Museum as it prepares to move into its […]
"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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