It’s the week in London when the three main auction houses have sales of a wide range of 20th century and contemporary art. While it is impossible to be comprehensive – I did not spot any work by Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam for example – the three auction houses do provide an outstanding exhibition between […]
Twentieth century urban planning has not been good to Edgware Road in London – the start of the busy road north that joins to the AI and thence to Scotland, when transport planners ruled the roost and created the flyover high above the road taking traffic out west, eventually to the M40 and thence to […]
Once one of London’s most elegant streets, with Georgian townhouses on either side, Dover Street in Mayfair was developed in the late 17th and 18th centuries by a syndicate headed by Sir Thomas Bond (after whom Bond Street is named) on land formerly occupied by Clarendon House. At that time the properties backed on to […]
Scattered on the grassy lawns adjacent to the formal garden and fountains of Regent’s Park, with the backcloth of John Nash’s elegant regency terraces, a successful initiative of Frieze this summer was the sculpture park where a wide range of strange and wonderful sculpture was on display through the summer by artists including Eduardo Paolozzi, […]
Arundel Great Court was an immense Brutalist mixed use complex of offices and hotel designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd & Partners and built from 1971-6 running from the Embankment all the way up to the Strand. At its heart was a courtyard, originally proposed to be opened to the public, but was closed off long […]
"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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