Category: Projects
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Future Cities 5 -Surreal Mythologies
You are all invited to the coming AVATAR Conference [Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research] Friday 1st April 2016 10.30am > 5pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre 000311 Stockwell Street, Greenwich, London SE10 8EY The international conference is free and open to the public on a first-come first-served basis. Future Cities 5 Surreal Mythologies ALL WELCOME – FREE…
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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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A new #PublicSpaceCode for London
A collective manifesto for public space was begun earlier this year on Twitter. We have collected together twelve of the most liked, retweeted and inspiring contributions so far. The newly founded Department of Public Space initiated a manifesto to define future public spaces in London. Conceived by Ed Wall, Academic Leader Landscape at the University of Greenwich, and…
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Whole Earth Fellowship
The University of Greenwich Sustainability Hub awarded Daisy Haywood, a Masters in Landscape Architecture student, a Whole Earth Fellowship to carry out a research project on a sustainability issue. Daisy’s project, London-Under-Sea, explores the future of London’s flood defences. She published a zine in time for the UN climate change conference in Paris, to initiate…
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Department of Public Space: A collective manifesto for public space
A new manifesto for public space was started this week at the University of Greenwich. Students and tutors from the MA Landscape Architecture and MSc Advanced Landscape and Urbanism programmes began writing a public space code for London. The public space code, inspired by Michael Sorkin’s Local Code (1993), is being collectively written in 140-character Tweets. The aim is to establish a Department of…
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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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Growing furniture
We are enjoying the work of Gavin Munro, who grows furniture which is sold though his company Full Grown. He has been getting some great press recently too. Check it out.
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Greenwich Project Studio: professional summer work experience, working with an exceptional place.
Greenwich Project Studio: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Professional summer work experience, working with an exceptional place. Here is a site rich in history, in architecture, in landscape. A client who is eager to engage and open minded. A large public space in London with an extraordinary past in need of a plan for the future.…
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Landscape Alumni Win International Competition
Four alumni from the MA Landscape Architecture programme at the University of Greenwich, Rowan Case, Ed Gant, Sarah Tolley and Arlene Decker, have won the Designing the Urban Commons competition, organised by Theatrum Mundi. Their proposal CarbonSync, which set out new spaces for urban commoning was selected by an international jury, including: Richard Sennett (Theatrum Mundi), Sarah Wigglesworth, Amica Dall (Assemble Studio), Francesca Ferguson…
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Stockwell Street selected in RIBA best buildings of 2015
The Stockwell Street building at the University of Greenwich has been selected by the RIBA as one of the best buildings of 2015. Described as a ‘delightful building’ by the Daily Telegraph the building hosts the the Department of Architecture and Landscape alongside the main university library, exhibition spaces, workshops and fourteen experimental green roofs.
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