What inspired the Spanish to undertake so many grand projects? Was it the success of the Guggenheim in Bilbao? Orviedo in Asturias has Calatrava’s Space Age Palace of Congress, already showing its age, and Santiago de Compostela has its City of Culture, a well-intentioned project conceived in another time before the financial crisis of a […]
East London, at the conference and business centre of Excel, was surprisingly busy over the last two days. A potentially dry subject of learning technologies attracted an amazing number of exhibitors, who all must see this as a positive business opportunity, with an amazing sea of visitors. Companies offering a variety of services from assisting […]
Set around the historic house, The Platanes, and a landscaped courtyard with balancing pond, King’s College London’s new BREEAM-Outstanding student residential development in Champion Hill, South London, provides 740 sustainable bedrooms which were occupied by students in the autumn term last year. The new buildings are varied in their architectural detailing and are set out […]
"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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