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  • Harry Bix presents…

    Harry Bix presents…

    Harry Bix, artist, landscape architect and lecturer, will be performing a project developed over the last year with CGP London and the Millwall Community Trust. Do join us on Saturday! SUMMARYNJDKJDS.PDF // 16 JUNE 2018 // 6PM CGP LONDON // THE GALLERY Harry Bix and the East Anglia Records House Band perform a reading of his

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  • Book a table at the Erith Lighthouse

    Book a table at the Erith Lighthouse

    Erith Lighthouse: A pavilion conceived by DK-CM and The Decorators will host a summer of events on Erith riverfront This summer Erith riverfront will host London’s second lighthouse: an extraordinary Thames-side structure which will give stunning views of the River Thames and create a new dining and community experience in South-East London, conceived by DK-CM

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  • Masters students form new practice and win first commissions

    Masters students form new practice and win first commissions

    Three inspiring MA Landscape Architecture students from the University of Greenwich, Maddy Gunn, Mei-Ling Schmidt and Ed Scobie, recently formed a new design practice (XMPL) and have already undertaken their first commissions. Read below their story:   *** During the final term of our Masters we approached the Friends of City Gardens and asked if

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  • Iain Sinclair to lecture at University of Greenwich

    Iain Sinclair to lecture at University of Greenwich

    The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2016-2017 :: Iain Sinclair :: Nicholas Hawksmoor and ‘The Man of the Crowd’: Watchfulness and Agitation Around the Pattern of East London Churches Thursday 17th November 2016, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis A consideration of the presence of

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  • The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2016-2017 :: Richard Martin :: We are the Institution: On Contemporary Museums

    The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2016-2017 :: Richard Martin :: We are the Institution: On Contemporary Museums

    Thursday 20th October 2016, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]  Free and open to the public on a first-come-first-served basis What do we want from museums today? How might the spaces and programmes of the museum reflect shifting political and social concerns? What role can architecture play in creating and engaging museum visitors? This talk

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  • “Out of this world” opportunity for landscape architects

    “Out of this world” opportunity for landscape architects

    Following publication of Ordnance Survey mapping for the surface of Mars in February, the Landscape Institute has been asked to assist with development of landscape character assessment of sections of the Mars landscape. Under the United Nation’s Outer Space Treaty, international law applies on Mars; however a regulatory framework for development does not exist. Following

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  • This Thursday – Topotek1’s Martin Rein-Cano to speak at Greenwich

    We hope to see you on Thursday to join the Landscape Architecture programmes at the University of Greenwich as we continue to celebrate our 50th anniversary with a lecture by Martin Rein-Cano, founder of Topotek1. Martin will deliver a Hawksmoor International Lecture on Thursday 18th February at 6:30pm. In his lecture Martin Rein-Cano will be presenting a Topotek

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  • Topotek1’s Martin Rein-Cano to speak at Greenwich

    Topotek1’s Martin Rein-Cano to speak at Greenwich

    The Landscape Architecture programmes at the University of Greenwich will continue to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a lecture by Martin Rein-Cano, founder of Topotek1. Martin will deliver a Hawksmoor International Lecture on Thursday 18th February at 6:30pm. In his lecture Martin Rein-Cano will be presenting a Topotek 1 project, Superkilen in Copenhagen. Superkilen is a public park in

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  • Greenwich Landscape Architect wins International Competition

    Greenwich Landscape Architect wins International Competition

    FFLO have won an international competition to design a transparent sauna in Toronto. Their design for the Winter Stations competition has been selected from 368 entries to be built this February. James Fox, director of FFLO and landscape architecture design tutor at the University of Greenwich, describes the project: “This transparent polycarbonate sauna for three offers a

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  • Sugar Tax? No need at Greenwich – just honey from the roofs

    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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