Category: Projects
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Sneak preview – landscape architecture student portfolios
Interested in the exceptional work of the Landscape Architecture students at the University of Greenwich? Below are a few in-progress drawings by the MA Landscape Architecture students who are designing landscapes along the Thames river through exploring the relations between macro infrastructures and small-scale interactions. Well done all! To see more of the postgraduate and undergraduate students in the department, join us on Thursday…
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New Road, Brighton – A Shared Space
New Road, Brighton is a street I remember from my childhood. Back then and until 2007 it was one of the main streets navigating the influx of traffic in a one way system through the city centre. Theatres and bars were thriving on one side and the Pavilion Gardens to the other. The road was…
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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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Long Sleeve Skywalk – Jiangsu,China
The Long Sleeve Skywalk is a simple but graceful integration of complicated urban functions with poetic space. Straddling across several river systems and a express way （Xuning Road）, the Long Sleeve Skywalk is located on Xuning Road, Suining County, Jiangsu Province. It connects the focal point of the county, Harmony Square, to the Forest Plaza…
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Bosco Verticale Milan – The next step
About 20 years ago Patric Blanc left climbers behind and started to create highly designed and engineered green walls. Although intense in maintenance and not very sustainable they are fantastic if built at the right spot. Stefano Boeri took the vertical greening up another step. Two residential towers (80 m and 112 m) in the…
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Quarry Garden in Botanical Garden, Shanghai, China, 2010
At the stone pit east-west “eyes” have been dug out of the severely weathered surface of the mountain. The platform－a section left over from quarrying－and a terrace to its north are made up of layers of retaining wall construction to avoid landslides. The site has an overall difference in height of about 30m and a…
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New Limassol Marina
This summer opened its doors to the public first part -the commercial part- of a major project for the construction of a new marina in Limassol, Cyprus. The Limassol Marina is an innovative and ambitious project which enhances and enriches both the infrastructure of nautical tourism and the tourism product and simultaneously opens new perspectives…
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Lion Grove Garden— A classic garden in China
Lion Grove Garden is one of the most famous gardens in Suzhou. It has a history of 672 years. The rockery in the garden is the most important characteristic. They are in different shapes and go p and down. There are 9 paths and 21 entrances cross the rockeries. The visitors can shuttle between them.…
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Suzhou Museum In China
Suzhou Museum is a historical museum, which is located in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China. It was built in 1960, and used as palace of prince. In October of 2006, the famous designer, Leoh Ming Pei, rebuilt it. Suzhou has a very long history of more than 2500 years. The most obvious feature of the…
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Integrating Ecology into Urban Spaces
“Nature is a continuum, with wilderness at one pole and the city at the other.” Ann Whiston Spirn, 1984 The spread of urban areas and developments within the city can have detrimental effects on wildlife. Regeneration in London is threatening populations of birds that use the open space for nesting and foraging. The black redstart…
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