Donald Trump has given Vauxhall in London a huge amount of publicity recently when he declined to open the new US Embassy, though when you see some of the new buildings around the Embassy, you can have some sympathy with his views. Whatever happened to the idea of creating places for people enjoy, rather than […]
In the nineteenth century, when the new railway tracks were being driven into the centre of London, this new utopian transport system destroyed many community facilities in its way. Homes, schools, hospitals all had to disappear or be relocated for the greater good. St Thomas’ Hospital was rebuilt in Lambeth to create the new station at […]
"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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