It is strange to think that the mobile phone was only invented in 1973 and we now have a whole generation who have known nothing else, though it was very limited in what it could do until Apple transformed mobile phones with its iPhone first released in 2007. Microsoft was founded in 1975, Facebook was […]
The most poignant works in ‘Rock My Soul’ curated by Isaac Julien were nine screen-prints in the series ‘in this space we breath’ by the British-Gambian artist Khadija Saye who, only 24 years old, tragically died in the Grenfell Tower disaster, a talented artist whose life was snatched away at an early age. Her prints […]
A pleasant summer’s day in north London, though the environment around the north side of City Road is gritty, urban and uninviting, with a standard prefabricated drive-through McDonalds full of builders from the new residential blocks being built all around. A long queue snakes up Wharf Road under the projecting balconies of the new developments, to […]
The area between Angel and Hoxton in London is a mass of building sites as this area is gradually redeveloped, taking advantage of the canals which provide fingers of water onto which many of the new residential apartments will face. In amongst this redevelopment are two old, but transformed, warehouse buildings, Nos 14 and 16 […]
"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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