Carving wood, handweaving rugs, burnishing gold, handmaking plaster reliefs and upholstering chairs were among the crafts that came to west London this week among the international exhibitors at Decorex in Syon Park and rapidly became some of the stars of the show. The other stars were the new designers displaying their work in Craftworks, a […]
On the road from the airport to the city centre of Havana, you drive past sentry boxes on the side or the centre of the road. Are these part of a defensive military system? No, they are part of he water system to the city. Considered one of the wonders of Cuban engineering, the Acueducto […]
"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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