qChildren love art and design and the opportunity to be creative. Sadly the educational system knocks this out of them, and fails to recognise that these children may well be the future designers of tomorrow, potentially creating – like James Dyson – multi-million pound businesses. Why do other countries like Korea and China appear to […]
A difficult task – how do you tell the story of four centuries of opera in what might seem a huge exhibition space, but when you think of the many aspects of the story, is dauntingly small for such a large subject. Cleverly, the collaborative exhibition between the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal […]
As the eyes of the world focus on sporting achievements at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, the masterplan for the next phase of the long term development of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, created for the 2012 London Olympics, is on view in Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics centre. The proposed new Cultural and Education District is an ambitious […]
The baroque style of art and architecture conjures up visions of Bavarian churches with elaborate decoration soaring upwards to skies full of clouds and cherubs. At first glance, it therefore seems strange to house galleries of European baroque art and design at the bottom of a staircase. Think however of a staircase leading down to […]
"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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