Tag: london
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Debating London’s Skyline
The London skyline has evolved rapidly over the past 20 years, notably with The Shard, The Leadenhall Tower (‘the Cheese-grater’), St Marys Axe (the Gherkin) and 20 Fenchurch Street (the ‘Walkie Talkie Scorchie’) dominating the capital’s skyline. Sir Simon Jenkins has written about the capital becoming a ‘Gulf on Thames’. Current planning applications involve a
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Landscapes from the Darenth Valley
Landscapes from the Darenth Valley Cristiana Angelini’s exhibition at Blackheath Halls This small exhibition in the café of the Blackheath halls was quite surprising. Cristiana’s paintings have an original point of view about the landscape. As we usually see pictures or paintings of beautiful and wide-open landscapes Cristiana has another perception of the landscape. The
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Landscape internship of the week
Nine year-long internships open with Morris Arboretum Date: 6/17/2013 – 6/6/2014 Type: Other Location(s): Pennsylvania Description:The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, a 166-acre premier public garden in Philadelphia, has openings for nine year-long interns. Positions are open in education, urban forestry, plant protection, plant propagation, arboriculture, botany, horticulture, and the rose and flower garden. For more details
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Banksy’s mobile garden follows Smithson’s land art
Street artist Banksy has created a mobile garden that is being driven around New York City. Is this a reinterpretation of Robert Smithson’s Floating Island?
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Did you win? Landscape Awards announced
The ASLA (the American Society of Landscape Architects) announces the winners of its 2013 Awards. Of particular interest was the winner of the research award for the Green Roof Innovation Technology (GRIT) Laboratory. Congratulations to our friends and colleagues at the University of Toronto.
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Landscape Architect becomes head of International Cycling Union – Armstrong Tweets “Hallelujah”
In September chartered landscape architect, Brian Cookson, became president of the International Cycling Union (UCI). Cookson who became head of British cycling in 1997 is credited with many of the successes in recent years. Through a combination of development programmes, partnerships and funding Cookson contributed to one of the most successful decades of cycling in
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Heneghan Peng shortlisted for another school
After their success in designing the new Stockwell Street building (above), for the University of Greenwich, the architects Heneghan Peng have been shortlisted to design the Global Centre for Social Sciences at the London School of Economics. A shortlist of five teams have been selected for the building. Heneghan Peng’s new building for the School for Architecture Design
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Iran and landscape architecture? Read Tom Turner’s latest post…
Tom Turner’s latest post on his popular Garden Visit website describes his optimism in Iran’s future. Read more about it.
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Wayward Plants at the University of Greenwich
On Wednesday 9th October at the University of Greenwich, 6:00pm at Avery Hill, Heather Ring will discus her unique approach to landscape architecture and urban growing through the creation of narrative environments and spaces of social exchange. Heather Ring CMLI is the founder and Creative Director of the London-based landscape architecture practice Wayward Plants. Their
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A shifting landscape of the billions
Some thoughts by Daphne Kao In a country like China with a population of 1.351 billion, it’s inhabitants become the most prominent but also the most invisible part of the landscape. Only when there is a purposely-made long holidays like October National Day or Chinese New Year, do you see this moving landscape of people at the airport,
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