Spencer de Grey has taken charge of the Architecture Room at the Royal Academy this summer. With a theme of sustainability in its widest sense – societal, environmental, economic and creating great buildings that enhance the urban environment and create great spaces – the Weston Room is piled high with projects. At one end are […]
Set alongside the banks of the River Test in Hampshire, England, the old derelict industrial site which had housed a paper mill, and at one time had a major role in the manufacture and printing of England’s bank notes, has been rescued by Bombay Sapphire for a new distillery and visitor centre. Key historic buildings have been refurbished, others […]
Thomas Heatherwick has released his proposals for the new Al Fayah Park is Abu Dhabi. His endless talents are now taking landscaping into new worlds, first with the Garden Bridge over the River Thames in London and now with this proposal for a new park in Abu Dhabi of which he says: “It’s not a […]
We have seen grain silos converted into residential schemes, including a student residential scheme in South Africa. Thomas Heatherwick has released imaginative proposals to convert grain silos along the waterfront in Capetown, South Africa into a contemporary art museum. South Africa has a growing art community, with a number of private galleries and the first […]
"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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