When the Walkie Talkie (20 Fenchurch Street) was nearing completion it attracted publicity for its capacity to fry eggs on the pavement. Rafael Viñoly’s great facade behaved like a solar mirror, as shown in the below video. The sun shade …
The landscape architecture of tall buildings in London Read more »
Streets are said to be green when they are dominated by vegetation and/or when they are green in the environmental sense (as in ‘green politics’). London’s Regent Street has never had tree planting but was designed, by John Nash, as …
London needs an integrated network of green streets Read more »
This witty and perceptive cutting is from the Friends of Greenwich Park Newsletter (No. 70 Summer 2015). The underlying problem is that neither the newly-Royal Borough of Greenwich nor the Greater London Authority has anything which a serious commentator would …
Greenwich Peninsula skyline landscape architecture London Read more »
Creating networks of long-distance walks, like the London Loop, the Capital Ring and the Jubilee Greenway is an aspect of landscape and open space planning for London and should be integrated with landscape planning for and cycle routes. The All London …
All London Green Grid – landscape and open space planning Read more »
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 …
Patrick Geddes and the origin of UK landscape architecture Read more »
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 …
The landscape architecture of London’s proposed Garden Bridge Read more »
On 12th October 2014 the Huffington Post US reported that This year there was a cultural shift that saw landscape architecture and its practitioners achieve an unprecedented level of visibility and influence. This year the single most notable development came courtesy …
2014 was a great year for landscape architecture Read more »
