Thinking about it...

Taken on a visit to our accountant, whose offices is based next door to Warren Smith Architects.

BREAKING GROUND

After an interminable period satisfying everyone and their kitchen sink we have broken ground.... 12 month contract period, with a split level space at the rear to overcome the 'basement' effect that comes with a basement....

NEW COMPLETED PROJECT: BOFFI WIGMORE

Hiscox Parladé have just completed a second shop for Boffi UK, the British wing of the great Italian bathroom and kitchen company with Piero Lissoni as head of design.

The site was a former bank [originally Hamleys] on Wigmore Street, central London. Apart from painting everything grey we also converted the vaults to become trading space and now they contain bathroom displays and a meeting room. This is a company that do things properly and we like them very much.

another year ...another ramadan

Old St Pancras Churchyard.

Before Thomas Hardy gave up architecture to become a poet - writer. He was in charge of collecting the bones from the cementery during the construction of St Pancras Station. So disgusted with the immorality of progress he later wrote:

We late-lamented, resting here,

Are mixed to human jam,

And each to each exclaims in fear,

'I know not which I am!'

WATERLOO

In 1994 the channel tunnel terminal by Grimshaw opened to huge acclaim.

15 years later it closed and has now reopened as a temporary theatre showing the Railway Children.

The concrete finishes are still perfect...we know that buildings often
have a 25year life span... but 15 years!

How many railway themed plays are there? what are they going to do??

JEAN NOUVEL PAVILLION AT THE SERPENTINE

CASPAR HALL AGAIN

Hebron series...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2008/jul/29/hebron.portraits.casparhall?picture=336060011

INK & WASH!

ROTUNDA

Salonica, Greece

Birthplace of Niko Kostaras and home of the Rotunda, built by Galerius Caesar in 300AD for use as a place of worship by the mysterious Samothratian Kabirii, then a Christian Church, then a mosque, now a Greek Orthodox Church. What next? McDonalds?