Of the four ‘masters of modern architecture’ (Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe) Corb was the most interested in the integration of architecture and landscape. His design for Chandigarh’s Capitol Complex is a major example …
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Those interested in actually tackling the issue of high levels of particulate pollution in city streets can measure particulate levels by taking part in the ISPEX scheme, between 1 September and 15 October 2015, and measure particulate levels on their mobile …
Finally, decades after Paris began its RER system, London is building its first Crossrail, which is west-east and due to open in 2019. Like Paris’s RER it is being built to continental GB loading gauge and it eventually could …
Over a century of experience: Landscape Architects have well over a century of experience of dealing with transport infrastructure projects. In the States parkways were roads created to view the scenery. The first parkway is generally thought to be the Eastern …
There’s an interesting article by Charles Crawford of LDA Design in the current 19 August 2015 issue of Rail. This summarizes elements of the HS2 Design Vision. HS2 being the high speed railway from London to Birmingham and to Manchester …
Poundbury. Poundbury is an urban extension to the Dorset town of Dorchester, a sort of garden suburb. It is sited to the west of Dorchester. The planned population is 5,000 and it forms a significant extension to the town. Dorchester …
Caption: An image of a traffic free Oxford Street from one of Labour’s 2016 Mayoral candidates, Christian Wolmar. David Carslaw’s paper at the June 2014 London Air Quality Network …
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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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 …
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 …
