October 4th, 2009 Share
Architecture and Influence from Drew Harty on Vimeo.
Simon Mawer’s novel, The Glass Room, has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Philip Johnson’s Glass House, on which the book is based is a stunning piece of modernist architecture built on a hill-side in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.
September 23rd, 2009 Share
In 1976 my Mum and me walked for an hour to our local train station and she took me to the Natural History Museum for the first time. I was seven years old and both that and the Science Museum were the first two things that made me realise how exciting the world was.
I’m now 40, yes properly middle-aged, and I have an eight-year-old daughter. When Fiona, one of the lovely people at Campbell Rowley, sent me the link to the Darwin Centre it brought back really lovely memories of my first trip and also reminded me that it is most definitely time to take little Milly for a day at the museum That’s a day, not a night, I don’t think a I could cope with the latter!
September 10th, 2009 Share
This is a house that Laura and I absolutely love. We were actually considering viewing the house but it went under offer before we had the chance.
It was built in 1962 by Arup to the designs of David Levitt. Alison and Peter Smithson made later additions to the property, making it undoubtedly one of finest architect-designed homes in Britain.
I only saw again today on The Modern House website and it just reminded me how beautiful it is.
September 9th, 2009 Share
It’s not often that you see a picture of a commercial building and your jaw drops. I haven’t actually seen the building in the flesh, so to speak, and it might be that the pictures make it look more alluring that it really is, but even so I just wish this bookshop was in my high street.
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