More London is an office development on the south bank of the River Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. The brief given to the landscape architects, in 1998, was to create a unique place with both an individual character …
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Game of Thrones’ author, George RR Martin, identifies two kinds of writer: the gardener and the architect (see eg this Youtube interview from 26:00, excerpt below). When a building is started the architect knows how many windows, flights of stairs and …
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Too often, landscape urbanism is explained in the difficult language of structuralist and post-structuralist philosophy. It can also be explained, in Biblical language. The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (The Bible, Luke 6:46-49 and Matthew 7:24–27) illustrates the fact …
Browsing landscape architecture on G+ let me find this beautiful image of Naman Spa. Small courtyards are not easy to design, if their primary role is to be a light well, but this courtyard has other virtues: the creepers are local …
The Guardian reported (on 20th November 2015) that ‘The City of London Corporation, local authority of the Square Mile, is to close off the whole of the famous yet famously inhospitable Bank junction to all motor vehicles except buses, starting …
Bank Junction to be pedestrianised with a Democratic Allocation of Street Space DASS Read more →
It’s true that London cyclists can be curmudgeonly. So we don’t spend enough time ringing our bells for what we really and truly want – which is to cycle in great landscape architecture. So here are some examples of what cyclists enjoy: Great …
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The Embankment East-West Cycle Superhighway will probably be unsafe for four reasons: bi-direction cycle lanes are inherently less-safe than uni-directional cycle lanes, according to Dutch cycle infrastructure guidance (CROW) this bi-directional cycle lane is unlikely to have different tidal flows in morning and …
Will London’s East-West Cycle Superhighway be too popular? Read more →
The first section of CS6, the North-South Cycle Superhighway, opened in October 2015. It is an 800m section and it is not yet open at both ends so it is not getting much use – yet. The video review is by …
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Peter Hitchins wrote this week (at the foot of a blog post) that ‘Approval has now been given for the building of a vast new concrete slab in the heart of London, 22 Bishopsgate. You may like this sort of thing …
London Skyline to be wrecked by 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper? Read more →
James Corner gave a very good lecture to a 300+ audience at the University of Greenwich yesterday. I went with a question, which was answered in the course of the lecture and did not need to be put. The question was this: ‘I …
James Corner answered my question about landscape urbanism and the QE Park Read more →
