Tag: london
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Agricultural Landscape Tourism
The agricultural landscapes of China are the focus of landscape architect Daphne Kao’s reflections. Agricultural landscape has its importance in every civilization. Agricultural land not only directly engages with food production, it also represents the most basic form of landscape marking by human-kind. Our modern society built on these agricultural foundations, but now they are
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Landscape job of the week
Graduate recruitment for landscape architects and designers seems to be on the rise. See below a six month contract with multidisciplinary firm BDP: Background BDP has an opening for a Graduate Landscape Architect to join our award-winning Manchester Studio. This is a key appointment to support the Landscape Team in a growing number of international landscape projects,
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Last landscapes in music: Reflections on the film of Ferenc Fricsay
In this ambitious article Joana Avelar Quintas, an MA Landscape Architecture student at the University of Greenwich, explores the associations between music and landscape. Ferenc Fricsay (9 August 1914 – 20 February 1963) was a Hungarian conductor who left us an important cultural heritage: Ferenc Fricsay. Rehearses and conducts Bedrich Smetana’s, Die Moldau. Film. Directed
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Landscape Architects Take Centre Stage in Climate Crisis
Last week the website Sourceable published an article highlighting the increasing importance of landscape architects to addressing the issues of climate change. They claim that ‘Landscape architects are integral in climate change mitigation and work with regional and national planning departments to implement strategies and mitigation designs.’ Check out the full article for more.
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High Line founders ‘redefine public space’
The founders of the High Line, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, have been awarded the prestigious Vincent Scully Prize. Read about the ‘impossible park’ on Sustainable Cities Collective.
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Building the urban forest
Scenario Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, provocations, and design projects that explore the topic of building the urban forest. The forest carries deep cultural significance. Within the urban landscape, this ecologically complex, spatially layered, dynamic system is also understood to perform a wide range of essential ecosystem services, from increasing property values to
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New designs on Canterbury Cathedral
The shortlisted designs for the design of the landscape of Canterbury Cathedral have been released. The five teams included those led by Hyland Edgar Driver, Dutch practice Kossmann Dejong, Michael Lee Architects, Purcell and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan. James Fox, who teaches at the University of Greenwich, has been involved in the Todd Longstaffe-Gowan proposal. Next week
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What should we think of London’s Garden Bridge?
Recent proposals for a new bridge across the Thames in London have been embraced by the Mayor. The design set out by Heatherwick Studio presents the city with a planted bridge connecting the South Bank with the Embankment. But as a concept design this proposal leaves many questions unanswered. What do you think of the
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A mixed response to Hamburg’s HafenCity
HafenCity has been one of the most significant urban redevelopments in Europe in recent decades. Giacomo Guzzon gives his personal response. Located on the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany, the HafenCity is a part of the district called Hamburg-Mitte. It is an urban development project that aims to transforms the old warehouses of Hamburg into
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Making Cities Fairer
The School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London is holding a Public Lecture on Making Cities Fairer. The lecture will be given by Professor Susan Parnell, Professor of Geography University of Cape Town, on Thursday 28 November 2013 6.30pm This event is free to attend, but you must book tickets online in advance
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