Cities are becoming denser and busier and higher and more polluted. This tends to make ground level space less attractive, because it is becoming noisier, windier, more shady and more polluted. But it also makes rooftop space more attractive, because …
Wikipedia (2015) describes Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) as a Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner.’ Geddes was also the first European to use the term ‘landscape architect’ as a professional title …
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Welcome to the website of the Landscape Architects Association We aim to help the public find out more about the work of landscape architects and how than help design and manage the many different types of landscape required by the 21st …
The Dragon Garden is being made for a school at 3,500m in Ladakh – a remote part of India’s Himalayan region often known as ‘Little Tibet’. The design is influenced by Buddhist ideas with the buildings arranged to form a …
Two landscape architects (Robert Holden and Tom Turner) discuss the urban design and landscape architectural aspects of the London Garden Bridge proposal. We like the idea of a bridge-which-is-more-than-just-a-crossing but agree with local residents’ that it is in the wrong …
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