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 …
The Evening Standard (3.7.2015, above) comments that ‘In the course of that contest the two cities have sought advantage on every possible measure. London usually lost out on the height of its buildings but gained on street-level hipness. Their restaurants …
The video includes short comments from: John Hopkins Peter Neal Annie Combs Neil Mattinson Nigel Dunnett James Hitchmough Sarah Price Phil Askew Tom Smith See also Additional videos from the Landscape Institute on the Landscape Legacy of the Queen Elizabeth …
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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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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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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
