Adjacent to the Lighthouse in Woking, Surrey, and alongside the Basingstoke Canal, is the World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Centre, opened in late 2013. The new building designed by Hopkins Architects sits above a car park which, sadly, had to be retained on site, with a new bridge connecting across the canal to the Lighthouse […]
Walking today through the centre of Woking in Surrey, it is hard to recognise that the town has a long history, having been the site of a 8th century monastery called Wochingas with a mention of the town in the Doomsday Book of 1086. Its recent history revolves around H.G.Wells who wrote “The War of […]
"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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