Category: Events
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Greenwich landscape students medals at 2014 Chelsea
Tom Turners review of the garden designs at the Chelsea Flower Show 2014 includes comments on Greenwich students’ best-ever year for Chelsea medals Cloudy Bay Sensory Garden designed by Gavin McWilliam & Andrew Wilson (not a Greenwich student but formerly a member of staff) The Mind’s Eye Garden designed by LDC – the concept was…
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Three landscape and architecture exhibitions this summer – save the dates
Please join us for the University of Greenwich, Department of Architecture and Landscape Summer Exhibitions. – 2014 Summer Exhibition, University of Greenwich, Department of Architecture and Landscape (at Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, London SE10 9LS; Private View on Thursday 12th June, 6:00pm; open from 12 – 27 June): This exhibition will present the…
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Chris Moss takes top prize at Green Infrastructure Week event
Soapbox, the winning design by Greenwich graduate Chris Moss, proposed an idea to enable healthy commutes (walking, running and cycling) by providing public showers using harvested rainwater and solar heating. Created from reused shipping containers, the units would also be social centres with their wi-fi and gardens. Solar panels would provide both electricity and shade. The…
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Topotek1 present Superkilen
This morning Martin Rein-Cano gave a lecture on public space at the Garden Museum. The lecture sponsored by the European Commission was part of a day of presentations discussing delightful cities. Rein-Cano presented Topotek1‘s project in Copenhagen, titled Superkilen. The expansive public space attempts to ’emancipate’ ideas of migration by collaborating with the surrounding communities…
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Future Cities 3
Thursday 10th April 2014 9.45am – 6.00pm Howe Lecture Theatre [QA080] Greenwich Maritime Campus Old Royal Naval College London SE10 9LS Much of our current urban view is characterised by a swingeing human fall-back position that values sophism, tardiness and economic stringency. This view is predicated on a concern, and a commercialisation of this concern,…
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Gustafson Porter lecture at Greenwich :: Neil Porter :: Wednesday 19 March
Join us for the latest landscape lecture at Greenwich, by Neil Porter. Open Lecture Series 2013/2014 Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055 Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus Wednesday 19th March; 6PM Encountering Land ? the movement and forms that create fluid minimal spaces that engage the eye and feet in discovery. Light and Water ? effects…
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Winning Royal Docks Landscape Project – Congratulations to Bethany Gale and Sarah Tolley
Following our post yesterday that Bethany and Sarah, both gradates from the MA Landscape Architecture programme at Greenwich, were shortlisted for the Landscape Institute’s Royal Docks Competition, they have been announced as overall winners. They saw off strong international competition from professional practices and students. Studio Engleback, Baharash Architects and students Christos Diplas and James Hartwell…
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Hat-trick for Greenwich landscape graduate
Bethany Gale and Sarah Tolley have been shortlisted for the Landscape Institute (LI) Royal Docks competition. Bethany, a landscape architecture graduate from the University of Greenwich adds this shortlisting to her previous success with LI and the RIBA competitions. The winners will be announced this week at Ecobuild tomorrow. Silvertown Docks by Bethany Gale and…
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Enter the Summer of Student Innovation competition
This year’s Summer of Student Innovation competition is now open. The competition offers the chance for students to create technology solutions that could change our education landscape, and provides £5000 grant funding to them to transform their ideas into prototypes. Students can come from a single discipline or from across disciplines. Last year, a University of Greenwich…
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Atmospheric Perceptual Awareness :: Open Lecture at Greenwich :: Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez
Please join us at the University of Greenwich for an architecture and landscape lecture by leading Spanish designer, academic and researcher Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez (Gálvez+Wieczorek Architecture). Open Lecture Series 2013/2014 Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055 Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus Wednesday 5th March; 6PM The lecture will focus on atmospheric perceptive awareness as an attitude…
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