Tag: london
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Pop Art Design at the Barbican
Art and Design brought to the masses? Aaron Carpenter reviews the latest exhibition on Pop Art Design at the Barbican. The Barbican always puts on a great exhibition in London. The Rain Room was one of the must see exhibitions of 2013, with constant queues and a long wait! in the curve, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot exhibition of…
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Project Manager for Living Walls and Green Roofs Centre – Job of the week
Project Manager – Living Walls and Green Roofs Centre School of Architecture, Design and Construction Location: Avery Hill campus Salary: £24,766 to £29,541 plus £3,337 London weighting per annum, pro rata Contract Type: Fixed Term – 16 weeks maximum up to 31 July 2014 Closing Date: Sunday 05 January 2014 Interview Date: To be confirmed…
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New Exhibition shows Jellicoe’s ambitions for Soho
Almost Lost: London’s Buildings Loved and Loathed opened this month at Wellington Arch. The exhibition by English Heritage presents striking designs for London by leading designers and planners. Included in the exhibition is a 1954 scheme for Soho by the landscape architect and former lecturer at the University of Greenwich (then Thames Polytechnic), Geoffrey Jellicoe.…
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Student wins Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing
It has been announced that Razna Begum, as Student of the Department of Architecture and Landscape, has won the Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing by the RIBA for her project Grunewald’s Athenaeum. Chris Kelly, another Greenwich Student, also had his work included in the RIBA Medals exhibition. The Department is obviously delighted by this…
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Planting for the future: Dan Pearson on designing London’s Garden Bridge
The London Evening Standard describe Dan Pearson’s ambitions for London’s proposed Garden Bridge. For more…
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Double Awards for Greenwich Landscape Graduate
Greenwich graduate Bethany Gale has been recognised in two prestigious awards this year. In November Bethany was highly commended in the 2013 Landscape Institute Awards for her outstanding design portfolio, while earlier in the year her project, Reclaiming the Canalside, was shortlisted for the RIBA Forgotten Spaces 2013 Competition. Bethany Gale graduated from the MA Landscape…
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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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Unnatural Futures
From genetically modified foods to zombie apocalypse, concerns about the future are increasingly reflected in contemporary media, policy and culture. An unnatural future is being shaped by rapidly escalating anxieties about the social, cultural, environmental and technological risks that now pervade everyday life. This climate of fear and uncertainty about the future requires careful consideration…
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Trenton wins appeal to remain in the UK
In April 2012 Trenton Oldfield stepped into the Thames to protest at elitism in British society. His protest in the public space of the river Thames disrupted the 158th annual university boat race. He was duly arrested, imprisoned and was due to be deported back to Australia. Today he won his appeal against the ruling by the home…
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Manhattan Timeformations
For those of you who enjoyed yesterday’s post on ExtendedNY, check out the Manhattan Timeformations by Brian McGrath. The commission from the Skyscraper Museum in New York City demonstrates the multi-layered complexity of space and time across the Manhattan grid.
