Corbusier visited Pinjore’s Mughal Garden when working on the design of Chandigarh – and it is a pity he did not learn more from the experience. Corbusier could also have read Constance Villiers-Stuart’s account of the Pinjore garden (in The …
Chandigarh 4 (of 4): Pinjore Yadavindra Mughal garden design Read more »
Renzo Piano has designed a Skyscraper for Paddington. Simon Jenkins calls it the Paddington Pole and comments that ‘Unlike the Shard, the Pole appears to have all the subtlety of a cigarette.’ I see it as the Paddington Pepperpot and …
Robert Holden and Tom Turner discuss the landscape architecture of Tooley Street with reference to its history and to the ideas of Jane Jacobs and Jan Gehl. The name Tooley Street is a corruption of ‘St Olave’s Street’ – and …
A landscape architects’ approach to greening Tooley Street in London Read more »
Richard J Williams (born in Washington DC and Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures at Edinburgh University College of Art) is right about the redevelopment of Edinburgh’s Waterfront . He wrote in the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine that ‘It starts promisingly …
Edinburgh’s Waterfront Redevelopment – the need for landscape urbanism Read more »
Congratulations to Spacehub on being appointed as landscape architects for Ebbsfleet Garden City. I hope they will be able to follow the landscape urbanism principle, that urban design should be led by landscape architects. A possible problem with this is …
Landscape architects appointed for Ebbsfleet Garden City in Kent Read more »
Edwin and Joy Hoag, in a 1977 book, identified the Masters of Modern Architecture as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. Their relationship with landscape architecture deserves more attention than it normally receives. Thinking …
The landscape architecture of Le Corbusier and the other Pioneer Modern Masters Read more »
Nek Chand Saini’s (नेक चंद सैनी) Rock Garden in Chandigarh is a remarkable contrast with Corbusier’s Capitol Complex, which it adjoins. Corb’s work is sterile, vacant, glaring and unused. Chand’s work is fascinating, cool, shady and very popular. How is …
Chandigarh 3 (of 4): The garden design of Nek Chand’s Illegal Rock Garden Read more »
Of the four ‘masters of modern architecture’ (Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe) Corb was the most interested in the integration of architecture and landscape. His design for Chandigarh’s Capitol Complex is a major example …
Chandigarh 2 (of 4): The landscape architecture of Le Corbusier’s Capitol Complex Read more »
Corbusier’s urban design for Chandigarh is seen in the west as a disaster. This assessment dates from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, when the roads had few motor vehicles and the roadside trees were saplings (see photos of Chandigarh’s roads, …
Chandigarh 1 (of 4): Le Corbusier’s urban design and planning Read more »
Too many old cities, like Beijing, have been destroyed to make way for modernity. And two many have been extended without due regard for landscape architecture. Far too often, design teams have been led by architects, engineers, planners or real …
Landscape urbanism and architecture in the design of Edinburgh New Town Read more »
