Upstairs, London is in chaos. A 40 year old relationship with European partners is to be destroyed, with many people who voted for this saying they didn’t really mean it, the Prime Minister has gone, the Leader of the Opposition is running out of Cabinet Members to appoint and the only pillars of strength are […]
A huge black arc runs across one of the walls, with figures merging into the floor below it. Elsewhere brightly coloured safety jackets are hanging in rows, inviting visitors to wear them as they set off to explore the finely-proportioned eighteenth century rooms with their crystal chandeliers, elegant mantelpieces and patterned timber floors which have […]
500 years ago, Henry VIII was king of England. He and his wife Catherine of Aragon had just celebrated the birth of their daughter, Mary, though Henry was desperate for a son to succeed him, and Thomas More completed his book “Utopia” describing the political system of an idealised island state, published in Latin in […]
"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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