The current LI President spent eight years, as a volunteer, trying to protect Twyford Down from the M3 motorway. Merrick Denton-Thompson’s account of the Battle for Twyford Down is in the above video (8.48 to 21:20). It was lost and Barbara Bryant, …
The Flying Pigeon bike (on display in London’s Design Museum) was made in Tianjin and based on the English Raleigh Roadster (which I hankered after in my teens) The Flying Pigeon Bicycle is on display in London’s new Design Museum. …
Definition of the term ‘landscape architecture’ Drawing on Oxford English Dictionary (OED) definitions: Design objectives are things ‘aimed at or sought; a target, goal, or end’ Design theories are a ‘statement of rules or principles to be followed’ Design methods …
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LI London held a meeting about Character Assessment on 28.11.2016. It was chaired by Robert Holden and the speakers were Christine Tudor (Natural England) Chris Drake (Kent County Council), Jon Rooney (AECOM) and Ben Croot (LDA Design). Having given the subject little …
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FOLAR has published a video of lectures on the landscape architecture of the British New Towns. They were given at the FOLAR study day on 19th March 2016. The speakers included: Oliver Rock, Elain Harwood, Caroline Gould and Tom Turner. My lecture is not …
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Gordon Evans’ report on his work as a landscape architect, for Buddhism for Social Development Action (BSDA) in Cambodia Opportunities for landscape architects to work in Cambodia are very much thinner on the ground than for, say, agricultural scientists or hydro-engineers. …
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe’s design for the memorial to President John F Kennedy was both a brilliant project and a brilliant example of how to explain a work of landscape architecture. Physically, the design is not a major intervention in the …
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Post-Brexit the UK is snuggling up to Uncle Sam. But landscape architects are right to worry about what might happen to Buckingham Palace after President Elect Donald Trump reveals his current thinking on re-designing the White House Garden.
The University of Greenwich Green Roofs and Living Wall Research Centre has installed a NEMEC Living Wall on the first floor of the building in which landscape architects and architects are taught. The Stockwell Street building has extensive and intensive …
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Lewis Cubitt Park was designed by Townsend Landscape Architects as part of Argent’s 72 acre King’s Cross development in north London. About 40% of the land is privately owned public open space. Designed and managed in a different manner to …
