While Philip Haas’s large organic sculptures ‘The Four Seasons’ currently grace the forecourt of the Baker Museum in Naples, Florida, USA, maquettes of the same sculptures are here in Surrey, welcoming visitors to the newly-opened Welcome Centre at RHS Wisley, the first phase of an ambitious £160 million investment in the future of RHS Wisley […]
There are ghosts here, so beware as you tread the slippery stairs down into another world, a world of darkness, of ancient and dark brick vaults, dripping water and old cells, once alive with chatter when it was full of criminals waiting trial at the nearby Middlesex Sessions House. You can imaging Charles Dickens visiting […]
Wilkinson Eyre’s new residential development at King’s Cross has given three historic gasholders with their sculptural frames new life and a new identity, their 19th century classical sculptural frames facing across to the new park within the fourth gasholder and out to the Regent’s Canal beyond. In one of the hottest summers of recent […]
The achievement of high quality design in the higher education sector has been recognised in the Regional Finals of the 2016 RIBA Awards with around 20 projects across the country demonstrating the high quality of architecture being achieved in a wide range of facilities from student centres and libraries to high-tech biomedical research buildings. Breathing new life […]
Train passengers out of King’s Cross or St Pancras stations are used to seeing the slender neoclassical gasholder frames silhouetted against the sky. Constructed in 1867, the historic structures are now being refurbished as a residential complex around a park, following a competition win by Wilkinson Eyre in 2005 which proposed three new residential buildings […]
Pavement space is at a premium in packed shopping streets such as Oxford Street and Regent Street in London where shoppers have to navigate around a bewildering array of pavement street furniture – traffic lights, traffic barriers, traffic signs, directional signs, street lights and bus stops. Anything than can be done to reduce the amount […]
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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