Two hundred and four years ago, on the 18th of June 1815, the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in what was a turning point in European politics. Four days later, Napoleon abdicated. The battleground in Belgium has, as the main memorial, a huge 43m high mound (with no lift) that, apparently, the Duke […]
On a grey wet spring day, walking along the uninspiring approach road to Waterloo Station, down towards the bridge that connects to the roundabout at Westminster Bridge, squeezed on a narrow pavement between the brickwork of Waterloo station and a long queue of black taxis waiting to move forward to take their turn to be […]
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, Unseen Waterloo: The Conflict Revisited at Somerset House, London, displays a series of photographic portraits created by the photographer Sam Faulkner to represent soldiers from an era before photography was invented. At the end of the battle at Waterloo some 54,000 soldiers were dead or injured, with […]
"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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