One of the questions which was not really discussed in detail at the London Real Estates Forum this week is how, in areas such as Fitzrovia, can the traditional character and identity with many small independent art galleries be retained as developers such as Derwent inevitably redevelop their properties, for example at 80 Charlotte Street. Recently, […]
Interior designer Briony Fitzgerald and architect Stuart Forbes Associates have transformed half of the the ground floor of the New Wing in Somerset House into a light stylish interior for Spring, the first solo restaurant venture for Australian chef Skye Gyngell. The original features of the former 19th century dining room have been restored and […]
Valeria Nascimento trained as an architect in Brazil but then decided to become a ceramic artist, working in Brazil until she moved to London in 1999. At her third solo exhibition “Elementa” at the Woolff Gallery, Valeria continues to create art of great beauty by assembling a series of the most delicate of porcelain shapes, […]
"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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