A large late 20th century concrete brutalist building opposite Baker Street Station in London announces the University of Westminster Marylebone Campus. Here, at the start of term, the campus is heaving with new students looking to transform their lives through the next few years of study. As with many universities, they are a complex contradiction […]
The birthplace of cinema in the UK has a new life after over 100 years – The Regent Street Cinema at the University of Westminster Cinematic moving images arrived in the UK on 20th February 1896 when the theatre of the Royal Polytechnical Institute in Regent Street London held the first demonstration of the Lumière […]
"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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