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Transport and Landscape Architects

By Robert Holden Posted on August 26, 2015 Posted in landscape architecture Tagged with landscape architecture practice, transport

Over a century of experience: Landscape Architects have well over a century of experience of dealing with transport infrastructure projects. In the States parkways were roads created to view the scenery. The first parkway is generally thought to be the Eastern …

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The Greenway from Newham to Tower Hamlets

By Tom Turner Posted on August 26, 2015 Posted in greenways Tagged with London

The Northern Outfall Sewer, which runs from Wick Lane to Beckton sewage treatment works was designed by Joseph Bazalgette after the 1853 cholera outbreak. Walkers were able to use much of the land above the sewer and it was known as Sewerbank. …

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Potters Fields landscape architecture London

By Tom Turner Posted on August 25, 2015 Posted in public parks Tagged with London

Eelco Hooftman of GROSS.MAX was the landscape architect for Potters Fields Park in London. The site was once a pottery in which English Delftware was made. It is on the south bank of the River Thames. Piet Oudolf the perennial …

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High Speed 2 Vision for Design

By Robert Holden Posted on August 24, 2015 Posted in landscape architecture Tagged with Design Vision, HS2, LDA Design, railways, transport

There’s an interesting article by Charles Crawford of LDA Design in the current 19 August 2015 issue of Rail. This summarizes elements of the HS2 Design Vision. HS2 being the high speed railway from London to Birmingham and to Manchester …

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St Andrews Square landscape architects

By Tom Turner Posted on August 24, 2015 Posted in urban squares Tagged with Edinburgh

St Andrew’s Square was built after 1772, as the first part of Edinburgh’s New Town, designed by James Craig. It was a private pleasure garden for use by local residents but was opened for public use in 2008. The old …

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Mayow Park, Sydenham

By Robert Holden Posted on August 23, 2015 Posted in public parks Tagged with London

 Sydenham Just north of Sydenham and in Perry Vale off Mayow Road and south of Forest Hill, this seven hectare park was opened in 1875 when the area was being first developed. It still has a fair number of field …

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Poundbury

By Robert Holden Posted on August 23, 2015 Posted in landscape architecture, urban design Tagged with Adrian Lisney, Duchy of Cornwall, Leon Krier, Poundbury, Prince of Wales

Poundbury. Poundbury is an urban extension to the Dorset town of Dorchester, a sort of garden suburb. It is sited to the west of Dorchester. The planned population is 5,000 and it forms a significant extension to the town. Dorchester …

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King’s Cross Square landscape architecture London

By Tom Turner Posted on August 23, 2015 Posted in urban squares Tagged with London

The space in front of King’s Cross was redesigned by Stanton Williams in 2010. Previously, it was occupied by a scrappy ticket hall which partly obscured Cubitt’s handsome 1852 station facade. Clearing the space was a wise choice. The open …

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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park landscape architecture London

By Tom Turner Posted on August 22, 2015 Posted in public parks

The 2012 Olympic Park closed after the games and re-opened in 2014 as the Queen Elizabeth Park as London’s newest large park. EDAW (which became AECOM) were the landscape architects and master planners. Implementation was designed and supervised by LDA …

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Manor House Gardens

By Tom Turner Posted on August 21, 2015 Posted in community gardens, public parks

Manor House Gardens was a private garden until acquired by the London County Council and opened as a public park in 1901. By 1993, when a park user proup was formed, it was under-funded and under-used. John Hopkins, a landscape …

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