King’s Cross continues to demonstrate what the best design-focused urban regeneration can achieve. With The Granary housing Central Saint Martin’s at its heart, expansive and interesting public spaces and a blend of new buildings by the best architects alongside refurbishments such as Thomas Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yards, King’s Cross has set a standard which others […]
Tom Dixon, (born in 1959), who was the Creative Designer of Habitat in the late 1990′s, has not only has just been awarded the London Design Medal, but he has contributed to make King’s Cross the creative and design district that it is today with his expansive presence in the arches of Coal Drops Yards, […]
The Chelsea Flower Show, reflecting the spirit of the times, has ditched the extravagant showmanship of gardens in previous years for themes that are much more focussed on our natural environment, on sustainability and on wellbeing, with a sub-theme linked to plants from hot climates – Dubai, South America and Africa – perhaps in anticipation […]
What is the future of retail design? Department stores and fashion shops have become ever more sophisticated with stylish over-designed interiors that emphasise luxury and quality. Would the future perhaps be the opposite – edgy derelict interiors that act as a rough counterbalance to the sophistication, innovation and quality of the designs on show. 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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