The Chelsea Flower Show, reflecting the spirit of the times, has ditched the extravagant showmanship of gardens in previous years for themes that are much more focussed on our natural environment, on sustainability and on wellbeing, with a sub-theme linked to plants from hot climates – Dubai, South America and Africa – perhaps in anticipation […]
In 1822, Frederick Law Olmstead was born, one of America’s foremost landscape architects, responsible for the design of many important parks and urban landscapes including Central Park in New York, Mount Royal Park in Montreal and the Niagara Reservation at Niagara Falls, American’s oldest state park. Across the Atlantic Ocean, in the rugged rural landscape […]
Traditional coal mining is a dark, claustrophobic and dangerous world below ground. The Leeds Industrial Museum, located in what was once one of the world’s largest woollen mills, has opened an exhibition of work by the social-documentary photographer Ian Beesley who has recorded the harsh reality of working down Hayroyd’s Colliery which was founded in […]
"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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