Design the Journey - Lessons from Geography
It is time to rethink travel - not just because we have been restricted by a pandemic but because the pandemic has provided the...
Learning from travel - Spatial Design in a Pandemic
A Sicilian Railway Station - Bagheria When my father was dying, I spent long days at a hospice. I spent the hours he was sleeping in the...
The Falkirk Wheel
a nod to Scottish past and modern engineering The Falkirk Wheel is a ‘must-have experience’ for visitors to southern Scotland. As the...
Spring in the Streets of Palermo
Children dressed for first communion, aromatic markets brimming over with local food, the visual abundance of modern and ancient...
Don’t "Do" Amalfi – "Do" Agerola!
An Italian Experience not to be missed! I have fallen in love with small green lizards, the shadows of leaves on stone steps, white walls...
Porosity in Singapore
Singapore reaches for the sky yet there are bridges in the air and lovely open porous spaces filled with people, greeery and colour all...
Inverted Theatre
Thirty years ago when I first visited Marseilles, I wandered along the portside. The atmosphere was seedy, the air densely polluted,...
Old Port - Old Fort - New Marseilles
MuCEM Designed by Rudy Riccioitti and Roland Carta on the historic port-site in the Belle-de-Mar district of Marseilles, the MuCEM (Musée...
“Japan blue” magic in the hills of Kanazawa
Second stop was the Kanazawa Yuwaku Sousaku no Mori Center for Crafts and Culture situated in the foothills about an hour bus ride from...
Reflection on Japan
Little bridges, stone water features, big colourful fish, tiny silver coffee jugs, indigo dye and shibori pleating, and second-hand...