ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
I am fascinated by architecture and design. Both in the creative process, and the way it contributes to vital urban planning issues and shapes the future. I am drawn to subjects around the world, which bring together sustainability with vision and humanism. Plus those at the crossover of building design and culture.
From Rotterdam’s first migration museum (and it’s floating farm!), to a replica Paris in Hangzhou China. Add to that the mission by a Chinese architect to revive traditional rural design, amid the country’s rampant urbanisation. Finally, the radical move to combat urban loneliness worldwide through high-rise housing design – from Hong Kong to London.
Building Communities with Buildings
All these subjects seem so intricately woven into the urban fibre of today, and tomorrow. Of building communities that are both sustainable and healthy. This is something that is becoming even more critical in our lives of increasing disconnect. Despite all the digital advances – or perhaps because of them – we live in some ways increasingly remote from others.
Covid did not help there – yet there are those that think one of its only positive sides, was weaving new connections … at a deeper level. Now what all that has to do with design, I have no idea! But it’s noteworthy. And brilliant designers from London to New York – featured in stories below – will continue to tackle those challenges with their incredible creative imaginations.