Bickersteth, Rupert
Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter: ‘to create a setting where people can meet’ - 25 April 2019 - London EMAP Publishing Limited 2019
‘La mer, la mer, toujours recommencée!’ as Paul Valéry put it in his 1920 poem Le Cimetière marin, or ‘The Sea! The Sea! Forever renewed’, with which Iris Murdoch would title a novel in 1978. The rhythmic crash of surf, the slop and swale of the tide, the amaranthine horizon a vault between the waters. Certainly the ocean has, since the beginning of time, inspired rumination on the infinite. The poet, standing on the shoreline, exclaiming metaphors of love and life unbidden in the face of such intangibly large vistas. Only natural then, for man to seek to somehow straddle the divide, grasp at something fixed where all is ever-changing but ever-constant, and seek to staunch the peculiar existential ache of the ocean.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)
Gjøde & Partnere Arkitekter: ‘to create a setting where people can meet’ - 25 April 2019 - London EMAP Publishing Limited 2019
‘La mer, la mer, toujours recommencée!’ as Paul Valéry put it in his 1920 poem Le Cimetière marin, or ‘The Sea! The Sea! Forever renewed’, with which Iris Murdoch would title a novel in 1978. The rhythmic crash of surf, the slop and swale of the tide, the amaranthine horizon a vault between the waters. Certainly the ocean has, since the beginning of time, inspired rumination on the infinite. The poet, standing on the shoreline, exclaiming metaphors of love and life unbidden in the face of such intangibly large vistas. Only natural then, for man to seek to somehow straddle the divide, grasp at something fixed where all is ever-changing but ever-constant, and seek to staunch the peculiar existential ache of the ocean.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)