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 »
May I contribute a version (taken from chapter 1 of the book written jointly with Jamie Liversedge Landscape Architecture, an introduction [2014]) which overlaps, but also extends the ground, covered by Tom Turner? Aesthetics + Horticulture + Ecology + Sustainability …
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 …
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 …
Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park London – comments from the landscape architects Read more »
Test
Landscape architects and urban designers can green streets and other routes as a contribution to mitigating climate change by undertaking or promoting some or all of the following desiderata: plan ecological corridors to promote migration of flora and fauna, conserve water, use …
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 …
Dalston Eastern Curve Community Garden’s landscape architecture London Read more »
