One of the things that stands out from the exhibition ‘Play Well’ at the Wellcome Collection is how children’s play has changed over the years. The ‘Right to Roam’ map shows how the geographical areas where four successive generations from one family in Sheffield were free to roam as 8-year old children has dramatically shrunk […]
In 2016, academics, students and magicians came together for a conference on The Science of Magic at Goldsmith’s College, London which itself has a MAGIC lab. Perhaps it sounds too much like an illusion, but this is a serious interdisciplinary research programme bringing magic and science together in the study of a human physiological issues. […]
It is well known that our built environment contributes to our well-being, and that there is a correlation in urban areas between high levels of pollution, ill-health and economic poverty. After the Second World War, high quality new housing estates were designed by architects such as Powell and Moya at Churchill Gardens in Pimlico, to […]
Never has copper wire been used so imaginatively. The Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition displays over 100 items by the French-British sculptor and film-maker Alice Anderson, all entirely mummified and transformed in copper. The gallery staircase, a bottle of coke, windows frames, computer parts, ropes and a plethora of other objects, wrapped in copper wire, glisten […]
Elegant, artistic, pleasurable staircases are back. Having been hidden away behind banks of lifts, the architectural and artistic value of staircases has again been recognised – as has the enjoyment of using them as they allow light and transparency between the floors of buildings in a way in which those hidden staircases do not. William […]
"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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