Category: Greenwich
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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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New landscape architecture publication
I was delighted last week to visit the AA Bookshop and find five books by the landscape team at the University of Greenwich. Books written and co-authored by Tom Turner, Jamie Liversedge and myself were available within the landscape and urbanism sections of the bookshop. The most recent is Landscape Architecture: An Introduction, by Jamie Liversedge…
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‘University of Greenwich is practising what it preaches’ – The Independent
This week, the Landscape programmes at the University of Greenwich were praised by the i-Independent in an article discussing Landscape Architecture. The city’s unsung heroes; Widget Finn flies the flag for landscape architects was published in the i-Independent and described the work being done at Greenwich by the staff and students. The article discussed the importance of…
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What are the ten best designed landscape projects in London?
What are the best contemporary landscape architecture projects in London? Well, let’s see… 10 – The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park designed by LDA Design and Hargreaves Associates. This park was built for the 2012 London Olympics and is being reconfigured following the games. The design incorporates the signature land forms that can be seen in much of…
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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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Mastering The Art of a MA Exhibition
Kit Bullas, an MA Landscape Architecture student, takes a view on a curatorial event in London. On Thursday evening night I attended the lecture, Through the Curator’s Lens ‘Twenties London, A City in the Jazz Age’. My rationale, where better to take an exhibition master class, than the very location I am organising MA Landscape…
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The Symbiosis – living together
Giedre Paliukaityte and Joana Avelar Quintas have been selected to build a landscape installation in Hortillonnages Amiens. It is the 5th year Maison de la Culture d’Amiens and the Borough Councils of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk present project Art, Villes & Paysage | Art, Cities & Landscape which is a part of the INTERREG…
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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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