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Author: Tom Turner
Tom Turner
Dalston Eastern Curve Community Garden’s landscape architecture London
Dalston Eastern Curve Community Garden is on the site of a railway line that had been derelict for half a century. J&L Gibbons landscape architects worked with muf/architecture on looking for underused space in Hackney. They found the site and …
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Interview with Johanna Gibbons London landscape architect of J&L Gibbons
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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London landscape architects work 2015
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 …
Battersea Power Station
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 …
Robin Hood Gardens landscape architecture London
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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Can cyclists and HGVs share a busy road?
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 …
Planning for cycling in London and Moscow
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 …
Thames Tideway Tunnel London: a landscape architect’s view
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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