What is the future of the car? Are classic models like the Jaguar E-Type just going to change their engine and fuel to electric to achieve zero emissions as in the Concept Zero driven by HRH the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at their wedding in 2018, or is something more fundamental going to happen, […]
You can perhaps see why the Scots feel that they are under-appreciated in London with the RIBA exhibition at the V&A Museum ‘Into the Blue’ on spas, lidos and swimming pools, showing only a pool built in the 1890′s in Alloa in Clackmannanshire, while there are also others such as the Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh […]
To the visitor, it must be a little strange; we are so used to museums artefacts being strong, secure and safe, but here lightweight paper structures float high above you, on top of cases containing the more historic and permanent models. You can almost feel that if someone sneezed or if there was a great […]
Architects, being architects, didn’t buy their Christmas treats in the supermarket, but instead created their own gingerbread buildings, bridges and other structures in the Museum of Architecture’s Gingerbread city, with the brief to imagine a city of the future within a masterplan designed by Tibbalds Planning and Design within the confines of the space at […]
It’s that time of year again and design explorers with their crumpled maps in hand are climbing stairs, tramping down long passages and exploring the amazing complexities of the Victoria & Albert Museum to find this year’s treasures in the 2018 London Design Festival. Starting with a 3-dimensional maze designed in Exhibition Road by Waugh […]
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 […]
Surrounded by historic tapestries, Ross Lovegrove’s immense serpent ripples through the gallery, its design inspired by the fabrics of the ladies in the medieval tapestries around it. A short walk away is the colourful stage design by Es Devlin for George Bizet’s opera Carmen to be performed on a stage in the lake at the […]
You’re looking for a book on architecture. Where do you go? Perhaps the Bookshop at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). You’re looking for a book on art. Where do you go? Perhaps to the bookshops at the Tate Gallery, the National Gallery or the Victoria and Albert Museum. You’re looking for something unusual […]
It’s not often that a humble material such as plywood creates controversy, but that’s what happened in September 2015 when, for Pope Francis’ visit to New York, Jim Lenahan Production Design designed a papal throne constructed from plywood, to reflect the Pope’s “emphasis on simplicity and humility” (Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York). In contrast, […]
The John Madejski Garden, designed by Kim Wilkie and opened in 2005 at the heart of the Victoria & Museum has, with Amanda Levete Architects (AL_A)’s new entrance on Exhibition Road suddenly changed from being slightly hidden through the galleries of the Museum, to being transparent and open, and in the great summer weather which […]
"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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