Outside, surrounded by offices of media companies, something strange has happened. The building frontage has been painted over over, as if it is derelict, but yet the images are a combination of classical Greek and modern urban art, with the light shining through inside as the colourful urban art contrasts with the more traditional art […]
An astonishing achievement which puts the wrangling over the Green Bridge in London (and its costs) to shame. The 1.45 mile long High Line in New York, the new urban park created on part of the disused elevated New York Central Railroad West Side Line, was opened in two phases in 2009 and 2011, running […]
"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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