Category: Exhibitions
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New Exhibition shows Jellicoe’s ambitions for Soho
Almost Lost: London’s Buildings Loved and Loathed opened this month at Wellington Arch. The exhibition by English Heritage presents striking designs for London by leading designers and planners. Included in the exhibition is a 1954 scheme for Soho by the landscape architect and former lecturer at the University of Greenwich (then Thames Polytechnic), Geoffrey Jellicoe.…
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Student wins Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing
It has been announced that Razna Begum, as Student of the Department of Architecture and Landscape, has won the Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing by the RIBA for her project Grunewald’s Athenaeum. Chris Kelly, another Greenwich Student, also had his work included in the RIBA Medals exhibition. The Department is obviously delighted by this…
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Greenwich graduate shortlisted for Society of Garden Designers award
A Greenwich graduate has been named as one of just three finalists in a national competition to reward outstanding work in design. Matt Cairns, who graduated from the University of Greenwich this year, is one of only three finalists in the Student Award category. He was nominated for his redesign of the Calverley Grounds public…
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Unnatural Futures
From genetically modified foods to zombie apocalypse, concerns about the future are increasingly reflected in contemporary media, policy and culture. An unnatural future is being shaped by rapidly escalating anxieties about the social, cultural, environmental and technological risks that now pervade everyday life. This climate of fear and uncertainty about the future requires careful consideration…
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Manhattan Timeformations
For those of you who enjoyed yesterday’s post on ExtendedNY, check out the Manhattan Timeformations by Brian McGrath. The commission from the Skyscraper Museum in New York City demonstrates the multi-layered complexity of space and time across the Manhattan grid.
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Rising tides and storm surges
Several interesting initiatives where landscape architects have been involved in addressing storm surges and rising tides in Europe and North America: – Facing up to Rising Sea Levels: Retreat, Defend, Attack? – Rising Currents – On the Palisade Bay – Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape Are there any other references anyone can offer? Image: Scape…
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Biodesign exhibition in Rotterdam
Living trees support houses and bridges; mushrooms replace synthetic foam for packaging and insulation; leaves grow into decorative patterns inside glass tiles. For a forthcoming exhibition at The New Institute, curator William Myers has selected dozens of projects that illustrate new ways to harness living systems for art, design and production. Biodesign: On the Cross-Pollination of…
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Slant Open International Landscape Design Competition 2013/2014
In the fifth SLANT competition you are invited to submit a design for a public space/park which will be designed to incorporate, either in part or in whole, the concept of “Transition”. Transition effect us all most days of our lives and it can be found in many different areas of our interests and activities.…
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Call for entries for the European Prize for Public Space
The 2014 European Prize for Urban Public Space has opened a call for entries. For more…
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Dan Pearson Exhibition at the Garden Museum
As the Dan Pearson exhibition at the Garden Museum, in London, nears its close, MA student Giacomo Guzzon reflects on the designers work. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the exhibition called ‘Green Fuse’: The work of Dan Pearson at the Garden Museum in London. Dan Pearson is a plants-man, garden…
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