Insights
A Creative Journal
Between 7th - 31st January, 2025, wildfires in Los Angeles claimed at least 30 lives, destroyed 18,000 structures, and displaced over 200,000 people, devastating an area twice the size of Manhattan.
The fires that swept through Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and Altadena now stand as the most financially ruinous wildfire disaster in U.S. history. But beyond the staggering statistics lies something deeper...
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How far would you go — literally — to see a great building?
The theory was simple: the further you’d travel to experience a piece of architecture, the more valuable it must be.
The debate was usually split into two parts:
Distance — How far did you go?
Access — Did you actually get in
Enter: Casa Malaparte.
This insight explores one architect’s risky journey to Italy, revealing why some buildings are worth bending the rules for.
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In a previous Insight, we explored the Umbrella House by Kazuo Shinohara—a modest 7m x 7m structure nestled in Tokyo’s dense urban realms. Small in scale, but immense in spirit, the house offered more than shelter. It posed questions. About space, order, emotion, and the very nature of what it means to dwell.
At the same moment—5,470 miles across the Pacific—another residential project was unfolding in the hills of Los Angeles...
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In today’s world, the idea of luxury has become increasingly disconnected from its true essence.
We believe that luxury is truly found in the deep harmony between the built environment and the natural world — in living in alignment with the rhythms and frequencies of nature.
We see a future where...
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In 1961, Kazuo Shinohara designed a modest, single-storey house in Tokyo’s Nerima Ward. Known now as the Umbrella House, this small dwelling would become one of the most significant works of his career.
That same year, while reflecting on the challenges of designing what was his smallest commission to date, Shinohara published an essay titled A House is Art. In this piece of writing, he proposed something radical…
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Inspired by the writings of Gerald Durrell (1925–1995) OBE, naturalist and founder of the Jersey Zoo.
The first half of the letter is a heartfelt and deeply honest declaration of love—an admission of his devotion, as well as his own vulnerabilities. But it’s in the second half, beginning with the words “Now let me tell you something…”, that his writing transforms into something truly extraordinary...
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A geometric structure can be created from two circles of equal radii that intersect in such a way that each circle’s centre lies on the circumference of the other. This configuration is known as the Vesica.
The Vesica is an ancient symbol, representing...
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To be authentically creative one must clean the house and throw out prejudice, fear and social conformity. Replacing this with a healthy understanding of self, not in an ego sense but a more conscious realisation of ones own precious being within an immense interconnected...
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