Tag: london
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Building it up – then burning it down: Arne Quinze presents…
Last night Arne Quinze presented his portfolio of artwork at the University of Greenwich. The artist renowned for his dramatic timber and metal installations gave a captivating account of his work process and inspiration. His Uchronia project for the Burning Man festival in the Nevada Desert gained worldwide attention in 2006.
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Grounds for Optimism – Designing Resilient Landscapes in London
On November 6th Johanna Gibbons and Neil Davidson of J & L Gibbons LLP, will be at the Garden Museum to talk about their recent exciting projects, including their winning entry to RIBA and Vauxhall BID’s ‘Vauxhall Missing Link Competition’ to redesign the public realm in the Vauxhall area of Nine Elms on the South
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Elevating the Public Realm – New Landscape Competition
ENYA 2014, Queensway Connection: Elevating the Public Realm, is focused on re-imagining the linear landscape of the Queensway. Queensway Connection: Elevating the Public Realm will support Friends of the Queensway and Trust for Public Land in their efforts to transform an abandoned rail right-of-way into a greenway that serves diverse neighborhoods in central and southern Queens. This
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New skatepark for Southbank Centre?
Rick Mather has been appointed to oversee a new skate park on the South Bank in London. No images or details yet – but an announcement: “Drawing on ideas suggested by local skateboarders as well as on their own expertise, they identified that the prime use of this site would focus on street skateboarding as
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A Grimm City? Check it out at the Design Museum
2012 marked the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales. To celebrate this occasion FleaFollyArchitects over the space of 5 weeks, ran a small summer atelier on the outskirts of the Black Forest in Germany. As a group of young architects and designers they planned and built the ‘Grimm City’
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Landscape jobs of the week
Landscape Architecture firm Planit IE are hiring. Check out their website for opportunities for graduates as well as experienced landscape architects and urban designers. “As the scale and geography of our projects grows, so in turn do the opportunities to grow our team.” Jobs are opening up in Manchester, London and in Copenhagen.
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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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Gilles Clement, Entropy by Design and Matthew Gandy
If you haven’t read it already, check out the paper by geographer Matthew Gandy about Gilles Clément’s project in Lille. The paper, Entropy by Design, explores the Parc Henri Matisse in Lille by Clément – the renowned French designer, landscape architect, ecologist and philosopher. Once you have read the paper, and if you happen to be
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Landmarks across the United States reopen
Many national landmarks across the US are reopening after being shut down for several weeks. New York’s Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon in Arizona were closed after the federal budget impasse in September caused the closure of the country’s National Parks. The two landmarks have reached deals with the federal government while Mount
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Try the Ecological Urbanism App
What did you think of the Ecological Urbanism book? If you need a reminder or never came across the big red book when it was published there is now an Ecological Urbanism App available. Check it out and let us know what you think.
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