Category: London
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Sugar Tax? No need at Greenwich – just honey from the roofs
Pure Greenwich honey is for sale today in the Stockwell Street cafe. The honey is from the apiary on the roofs of Stockwell Street, the new University of Greenwich building in London. The building incorporates 14 innovative landscape roofs which create a living laboratory where the sustainability of new ideas in landscape architecture are tested. The 14 different…
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Christine Riding :: The Queen’s House, Greenwich: Past, Present and Future?
Thursday 15th October 2015, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] In 2016, the Royal Museum’s Greenwich will be celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Queen’s House with a programme of refurbishment and redisplays. Designed by Inigo Jones in 1616 for James I’s wife, Anne of Denmark, the House is the first classical building in the…
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The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16 :: Nat Chard :: Drawing Uncertainty
Nat will discuss his research into how to draw conditions of uncertainty in architecture, the rich realm beyond the grasp of the traditional architectural program. The work is developed through a series of nine types of drawing instrument, some of which have multiple versions. Nat is an architect and the Professor of Experimental Architecture at the Bartlett School…
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‘Ordinary Streets’ film launch
‘Ordinary Streets’ is a short film based on an ethnographic and visual exploration of the spaces, economies and cultures of ‘street’. Through the lens of Rye Lane in Peckham in south London, the film engages with issues of migration, urban multiculture and regeneration. Myfanwy Taylor from University College London will provide a commentary on the film. ‘Ordinary…
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Community-led design: The Peckham Coal Line
The impact of New York’s High Line has rippled far beyond the Hudson River. Cities across the world are clambering around, desperate for their own version of the celebrated elevated linear park. Amongst the controversy of the Garden Bridge in London and the high-tech proclamations for the Lowline in Chicago, is the Peckham Coal Line.…
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ADVANCED LANDSCAPE STUDIO ::: An exhibition of design works by the MA Landscape Architecture and MSc Advanced Landscape and Urbanism graduates
ADVANCED LANDSCAPE STUDIO ::: An exhibition of design works by graduates of the MA Landscape Architecture and MSc Advanced Landscape and Urbanism programmes – Private View 25 September, 18:00hrs – University of Greenwich, 10 Stockwell Street, Greenwich, London The 2014/15 design works of the Advanced Landscape Studio (MALA / MScALU) was focused on site-based actions, interventions…
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James Corner to speak at University of Greenwich
Renowned landscape architect James Corner is to speak at the University of Greenwich in November. Corner, whose firm Field Operations designed New York’s High Line and the South Park of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, will give a lecture as part of the Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series, at 6:30pm on November 19th.…
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Martha Schwartz Partners is seeking landscape architects
London-based landscape architecture practice Martha Schwartz Partners is seeking landscape architects to work on a range of high quality international projects. See below for information: // // // // Senior landscape architects London, United Kingdom They are a world leading, award-winning, highly creative landscape architecture office whose growing portfolio of UK, European, Middle Eastern projects leads…
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AJ Reviews Greenwich 2015 Student Show
‘the engagement with landscape appears to have successfully infiltrated all studios this year, embedding the agendas of landscape and urbanism strongly within the school’s culture’ Dan Hills for Architect’s Journal The Architect’s Journal’s annual review of end-of-year student show highlights the presence of landscape across the school at Greenwich. While the AJ is well versed in reviewing the work of architecture…
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Student Competition – A Folly For London
Students wanted for free-to-enter competition for satirical architecture as protest to the proposed Garden Bridge As public engagement & political protest against the proposed private river crossing I would greatly appreciate it if you could inform any of your students or colleagues who may be interested in A Folly For London. Entries are sought from all for architecture of the…
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