Making a building is such a big thing. They impact people for generations and act as massive transfers of information. It’s very profound. You can’t think enough about what the responsibility is. And, yes, I know this way of thinking makes it overly torturous for myself – even my team think that. But buildings are not background for me. It’s not a nine-to-five thing, my eyes are always looking and I always have an opinion on the buildings around me. Luckily my wife is able to giggle with me about it. It’s important to understand root sources in architecture. I’m fascinated by memory in my work now, but it’s something that happened incidentally at first. It started when I was asked to work on the Stephen Lawrence Centre in 2007 and deal with the idea of a tragic and traumatic issue, but also create a memorial for this young boy and an educational centre for Lewisham, south London. In a strange way, the Rivington Place arts centre in London also had an idea of embedding the archive of Professor Stuart Hall. It was an indirect homage to this political activist and social theorist’s incredible legacy and his role as the… Read full this story
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