Canary Wharf has had an invasion of people who are far from the stereotypical smart white-shirted, suited financial experts that fill the banking floors of the towering buildings rising up from the public spaces. On the piazza outside One Canada Square, Sean Henry’s ‘Standing Man’ looks out while inside the grand architecture of the Lobby […]
I have discovered that a friend, now retired, used to work in the basement of 3 Hanover Square when it was an HSBC Bank. In Southfields where I live, the HSBC has now become a popular Café Nero and our former NatWest Bank sits empty awaiting a new use. Will it be yet another coffee […]
"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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