If a mirror could talk, what stories could it tell of the people who have admired their reflections in it over the generations, and of the events that have passed by it. Reflections have always been fascinating, whether in a slow moving river, the polished metal of a Roman hand mirror, the grandeur of […]
Outside it was cold and grey, a typical London winter’s evening, as the well-wrapped skaters enjoyed themselves dancing round on the ice of the skating rink and the cold wind blew up the River Thames. Inside was the contrasting heat of Marrakesh, as Hassan Hajjaj’s exhibition ‘La Caravane’ came to a close. In the historic […]
When I was a young architect, I had a project in one of our national galleries to create a setting for renaissance paintings that would be reminiscent of the rough church plaster of Italian buildings of the time, following a request from the curator. Have you ever tried to persuade a plasterer, painter and decorator that you […]
"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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