Tag: Architecture and Landscape
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East of Eden
Thursday 6th November 2014 > 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Speakers: Nic Clear – Head of Department Architecture and Landscape, University of Greenwich Ian Worley – Enderby Group Richard Baglin – Greenwich Society Neil Smith – Head of Planning Knight Dragon Developments Matthew Nimmo – Peabody Urban Regeneration + Panel Discussion In September 2014…
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Wish you were here? Our brand-new Stockwell Street opened today!
We have finally moved to our new home and we wish you were here with us! If you are not here already do get in touch for a tour of the amazing facilities and our 14 green roofs. The Stockwell Street building includes the UK’s largest landscape roofs dedicated to research and teaching. They have been designed…
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The Scale of Living
The dreams of many people my age, who are creeping into their late 20’s, of buying their own home is as far out of reach as ever. I live in a small village in the South-East of England, where recently one bungalow was knocked down to build 4 new 2-bedroom houses constructed in its place.…
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Working with floods: leading landscape architecture & urbanism approaches
As the South of England continues to be inundated with storms, The Landscape side-steps the political finger-pointing to present leading initiatives to working with water, projects led by Landscape Architects, Urbanists and Designers. 1. On the Water: Palisade Bay – This research project explores the patterns of storms on the East Coast of the US and their…
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Broken Edges: Cities and Other Ruins
Public lecture: Broken Edges: Cities and Other Ruins12 Feb 2014 | Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE 18.30 – 20.00LSE Cities is delighted to host an event on the role of ruins in the remaking of cultural as well as urban heritage, with a special focus on the restoration of Astley Castle. Our platform…
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“Green Greenwich” named best in sector for sustainability
The University of Greenwich has won the prestigious Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development. The judges said that they chose the university from a shortlist “full of heavyweights” in recognition of the university’s “remarkable achievement” of “attaining and sustaining a standard that not just matches best practice elsewhere but introduces its…
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Neil Denari to give public lecture: The Return to the Real
On Tuesday Neil M. Denari presents The Return to the Real as part of the University of Greenwich Open International Lecture. Come and join us at the Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055, Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus, on Tuesday 29th October at 18:00hrs.
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A Strange Newness: An open lecture on Architecture as Science Fiction
Literary critic Darko Suvin contends that science fiction is a ‘literature of cognitive estrangement’ expressing an ‘exclusive interest in a strange newness, a novum’; any survey of the most advanced architectural production of the last one hundred years reveals the existence of whole series of fictional ‘novum’ even if they are not explicitly labelled as…
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