Standing in front of you is a well-dressed young woman smoking a cigarette, not what you expect to see these days, beyond which is a large carpet made from multi-coloured run, with a predominance of red, and words projecting from the carpet in tufted wool, both in English and Chinese. You tread carefully over the […]
In 1789 the Navy Board in London moved into its new offices in Somerset House, then just completed, where it remained until, merged into the Board of Admiralty, it moved out to Whitehall in 1873. At Somerset House, it had a link with the river that ran down to the sea from which the Navy […]
"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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