Category: News
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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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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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London Landscape Exhibition – Opening Monday
On behalf of the MA Landscape Architecture Students at the University of Greenwich, you are formally invited to the private view of the graduating students’ work. Monday, 5:30pm – 9:00pm, The Gallery (Alan Baxter Associates), Cowcross Street, London The exhibition has been organised and curated by the students – and is generously supported by Wilder Associates,
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Building Design reports on the Hanging Gardens of Greenwich
Building Design report that ‘Heneghan Peng’s new School of Architecture and Construction for the University of Greenwich will host 14 roof gardens, including ponds, teaching spaces, beehives and even a couple of vineyards – the first permanent algaeponics installation in the UK…’ Read more
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Greenwich landscape students medals at 2014 Chelsea
Tom Turners review of the garden designs at the Chelsea Flower Show 2014 includes comments on Greenwich students’ best-ever year for Chelsea medals Cloudy Bay Sensory Garden designed by Gavin McWilliam & Andrew Wilson (not a Greenwich student but formerly a member of staff) The Mind’s Eye Garden designed by LDC – the concept was
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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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Topotek1 present Superkilen
This morning Martin Rein-Cano gave a lecture on public space at the Garden Museum. The lecture sponsored by the European Commission was part of a day of presentations discussing delightful cities. Rein-Cano presented Topotek1‘s project in Copenhagen, titled Superkilen. The expansive public space attempts to ’emancipate’ ideas of migration by collaborating with the surrounding communities
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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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