Category: Greenwich
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Downstream: Actions, Interventions and Infrastructures: International Workshop
‘Regeneration’ has recently become a pervasive metaphor for urban change in London. Yet evocative as it might be, this is by no means a straightforward concept. Campkin, B. 2013. Remaking London. I.B.Taurus Context: London, East of Greenwich, is a landscape of continual spatial transformations, shifting infrastructures and unexpected adjacencies. It is a loosely…
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The Observer reviews the new building
Rowan Moore, writing in The Observer, describes the confidence of the new Stockwell Street building at the University of Greenwich and the opportunities of the green roofs for the landscape architecture students: ‘A significant part of the school is its programme of landscape architecture, and these spaces are intended to be open-air laboratories for testing…
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Wish you were here? Our brand-new Stockwell Street opened today!
We have finally moved to our new home and we wish you were here with us! If you are not here already do get in touch for a tour of the amazing facilities and our 14 green roofs. The Stockwell Street building includes the UK’s largest landscape roofs dedicated to research and teaching. They have been designed…
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Leading lecturers and alumni featured in Kerb 21
University of Greenwich alumni Martí Franch and lecturer Elizabeth Anne Williams write for the latest issue of Kerb. Practitioners of landscape architecture tread the line between creator and curator. Kerb 21 explores how the global condition is influencing practitioners, their methods and the dynamic that exists in the discipline between the established and multidisciplinary practices. This issue…
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Invitation from the LI and the University of Greenwich: Jellicoe Lecture 2014 film screening
The Jellicoe Lecture and LI AGM will take place on 16th October 2014 The Landscape Institute and the Department of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich present the UK premier of a new film, Water Blues Green Solutions, recently released in the US. This collaboration brings together the LI’s annual Jellicoe Lecture with…
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Tree Pit Trials – Urban Trees
This summer I was invited to observe and assist in an urban tree pit comparative study at Hadlow College at the University of Greenwich. The project is led by Duncan Goodwin, a landscape architect and senior lecturer at the University and Alex Rennie, head gardener at Hadlow. The study consists of twelve tree pits measuring…
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The Royal Parks at University of Greenwich
The University of Greenwich is delighted to be collaborating with The Royal Parks and The Royal Parks Guild to host this year’s Royal Parks Apprenticeship Scheme Awards Celebration. On the 10th September The Royal Parks will come to Greenwich’s Maritime campus for their annual graduation ceremony. The Royal Parks Apprenticeship Scheme offers work-place learning in…
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New Landscape / New Architecture / Old Street
Last month Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich enjoyed a beautiful evening of talks at a pop-up event at Old Street. Amongst many wondrous things, collecting snow-domes & the ennui of life after snow-domes, un-butchering Bacon in the Tate, an obsessive on Le Corbusier’s landscapes and, most importantly, two days of showing excellent work by…
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landscape portfolio 2014/02
Heygate Estate Pioneered Kit’s project is based at the vacant Heygate Estate, Walworth, South London. Initially he questioned whether the borough of Southwark’s, objective of redevelopment, could be arrived at without complete demolition of the 40 year old estate. Fascinated by the pioneer plants, which colonise previously disrupted ecosystems to begin a chain of ecological…
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micro A+L pop-up exhibition
End of Year Exhibition We are delighted to announce the End of Year Exhibition for the Department of Architecture + Landscape is now open until Saturday 21st June (Open daily 9.00am – 7.00pm). The Architecture + Landscape Department exhibition showcases both Architecture and Landscape work together in the UNESCO World Heritage Queen Anne building designed…
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