The answer depends entirely on traffic volumes. There are no problems if they are low but sharing is impossible if the volume of either pedestrians or cyclists is high. In London, the regulations take no account of this obvious truth. The Thames …
London is the European capital with the best claim to being a ‘garden city’. This is because of its extensive parks and the historic norm of every house having a private garden. But London is becoming a city of office …
London can have a Roof Garden City above its two other landscape architectures Read more »
The 2012 re-design of Leicester Square by landscape architects Burns+Nice is working well. It was changed it from ‘just another London Square’ into the heart of a cinema district. But they could do with a big outdoor screen for showing the …
Landscape architecture books, magazines and websites Introductions for students and applicants to landscape courses The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture, Tim Waterman Bloombury; 2015 Landscape Architecture: An Introduction Robert Holden and Jamie Liversedge Laurence King; 2014 Landscape Architecture: A Very Short Introduction, Ian Thompson …
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Deptford Creekside East is a housing development designed by Squire and Partners. The best thing about it is the roof gardens which, because they are for residents only (sensibly) I have not visited. The interiors, judging from the adverts, are …
The Regent’s Park Terraces are London’s finest example of scenic architecture. The define the space. John Nash designed a full elevation for the buildings enclosing Regent’s Park and was then involved with the detailed design of: Cumberland Terrace, Chester Terrace, …
Regent’s Park Terraces – housing as architecture and landscape in London Read more »
Cross Bones Garden is being made on the site of Cross Bones Graveyard. For centuries, it was a paupers’ burial ground used for the interment of bodies which could not be accommodated on consecrated ground. Many of the people buried …
Cross Bones Garden of Remembrance by Bankside Open Spaces Trust Read more »
The University of Greenwich’s Department of Architecture and Landscape, in Stockwell Street has extensive green roofs, used as follows: about half the area is designed as roof gardens (‘intensive green roofs’) and are accessible to landscape architecture students and staff …
Stockwell Street – University of Greenwich Green Roof London Read more »
London needs more green walls for all its residents. Living green walls, if you don’t know, are panels of plants grown vertically using hydroponics, on structures that can be either free-standing or attached to walls. They are also known as …
Karen Fitzsimon wrote (in the Telegraph 27 February 2015) about a visit to one of Preben Jakobsen’s best gardens: ‘Standing in front of the property, I took a punt and decided to knock on the door. I fully expected the …
