Johanna Gibbons is a London landscape architect and founder of J&L Gibbons. In another interview, with the Landscape journal, she explained her community approach to design: ‘We don’t do consultation,’ she tells me. ‘We do engagement.’ To Gibbons, consultation is ‘often …
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What can we learn about the work of London landscape architects from Google? My impression is that the results from an image search are ‘more organic’ the results from a text search, because it is far less commercialised. The returns …
After 40 years of electricity generation, Battersea Power Station was shut down between 1975 and 1978. A competition for its redevelopment was held in 1983. It led to nothing, as did many subsequent schemes from subsequent owners. In 2012 the …
In mid-2015, the future of the Smithson’s design for Robin Hood Gardens in East London remains uncertain. The current proposal is demolition followed by re-building to a masterplan by Aedas. Richard Rogers and the Smithsons’ son (Simon, an architect) are …
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No. Most of the cyclist deaths in London are caused by heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) being unaware of cyclists. Due to HGVs being so much bigger than cyclists, a lot of drivers don’t tend to see the cyclist. Unfortunately, this …
London has much to learn about planning for cycling from other cities. But London does not, I suggest, have much to learn from Moscow. Nor do I think many landscape architects were involved with planning the cycle path, unless they were …
Like all Londoners, I expect to have to pay £80/year for the rest of my life for the Thames Tideway Tunnel. The ‘supersewer’ will run under the north shore of the river in Central London. Is this a good deal for Londoners? No. …
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The London Branch of the UK Landscape Institute made these London_2050_green_infrastructure_2014_landscape_comment.pdf recommendations: SUMMARY of LI London Branch Recommendations 1. Make it clear that the principles of green infrastructure planning apply to the whole of London, not only to vegetated ‘greenspace’. …
Simon Jenkis argues that ‘London today has the only skyline in the western world that is unzoned and unplanned. I once asked Johnson’s deputy mayor for planning (yes, there is one), Sir Edward Lister, how many towers he thought appropriate …
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