Tag: landscape architecture
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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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Apply to be a Landscape Architect
Applications are open to study Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Greenwich, starting in September 2016. If you are interested to be a Landscape Architect contact us and we can arrange an informal visit, for you to meet other students and to see some of our great student work. For undergraduate studies the BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture programme…
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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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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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Marti Franch to speak at Greenwich – marking the 50th anniversary of Landscape Architecture education
Award winning landscape architect Marti Franch (Estudi Marti Franch: Arquitectura del Paisaige) will speak at the University of Greenwich in September to mark the beginning of the new academic year. Marti, who is a former alumni of the MA Landscape Architecture programme at Greenwich, has a landscape architecture studio in Spain from where he works internationally. Marti won the Rosa…
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University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Seeking Landscape Architecture Lecturer
Our friends at UTS (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) are looking for lecturer for their new Landscape Architecture programme. Check out the job application on: http://www.seek.com.au/job/29149406
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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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Student exhibition at arts festival
Students on the Certificate in Landscape Design programme have exhibited their work to local residents, as part of the Thamesmead Arts Festival. Throughout the year, students have been exploring the history and changing dynamics of Thamesmead, a town built in the 1970s in east London. Student projects have included reintegrating gypsy’s horses back into the landscape,…
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Michael Sorkin to speak at University of Greenwich Future Cities conference
AVATAR presents: FUTURE CITIES 4: RECONCILING OPPOSITES Friday 17th April – 10am > 5pm + Drinks reception from 5pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Keynote Speaker – MICHAEL SORKIN City College of New York / Michael Sorkin Studio JUSTIN McGUIRK Strelka Press / Writer, Critic, Curator IAN WORLEY Enderby Group, Greenwich NIC CLEAR University of Greenwich…
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The future of landscape? Student work from Greenwich landscape architecture students
What are the next generation of landscape architects designing? Follow the work of postgraduate students from the University of Greenwich to find out. For more click here.
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