Category: London
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William Hague MP opens Greenwich building with “biggest learning green roof in Europe”
First Secretary of State, the Rt Hon William Hague MP praised Britain’s universities as “one of our nation’s most distinctive contributions to the world” as he officially opened the university’s new Stockwell Street building on Tuesday 9 December. The former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs toured the building’s facilities, discussing the 24-Hour East of…
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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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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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Visiting Broadgate
Even tough I live and work just a few minutes away, I have never visited the Broadgate Development. I was always just passing by its tall buildings, but never actually daring to cross this stone and metal labyrinth. Broadgate is a 32-acre office and retail estate in the City of London. It was the largest…
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Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album
“I wanted to document something. I wanted to leave something that I thought would be a record of it, whether it was Martin Luther King, the hippies, or whether it was the artist.” (Dennis Hopper) The best photography exhibition in London currently is the Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album collection being exhibited at the Royal Academy…
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Visions for Heathrow City
In 2013 the Airports Commission, established by the government, published a report, concluding that South East needs an additional runway by 2030 and possibly a second additional by 2050. The biggest pressure falls onto Heathrow Airport which currently runs at its full potential and there is no doubt that it needs a new strategy. Although,…
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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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Job of the week: Landscape architect at Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners is seeking a landscape architect to join its team in Battersea, London. Foster + Partners is one of the most innovative architecture and integrated design practices in the world. Based in London, with offices worldwide, the practice has an international reputation, with buildings on six continents. Since its inception we have won…
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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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