Tag: University of Greenwich
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New green roofs and studio spaces
Check out the video featuring the new roof gardens and studio spaces that are currently under production. The University of Greenwich is leading the global discourse on green roofs in their new Stockwell Street building that will be home to the Landscape Architecture and Urbanism programmes from September. The green roofs are one of the
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Welcome to the Landscape
The Landscape is a platform for landscape, design, architecture and urbanism. It includes quick news on projects, exhibitions, lectures and events as well as longer articles and reviews. If you would like to join the team, contribute an article or publish a project please get in touch. The Landscape was launched in September 2013 and is published
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When buildings come to life as landscape – on the BBC
Dr Benz Kotzen, Landscape Architect and Postgraduate Coordinator for Landscape at the University of Greenwich, is interviewed by the BBC’s Click programme. He discusses the green roof innovation of the new university building at Stockwell Street: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9712678.stm In 2014 all the landscape programmes will be based in the new building which will also be home to
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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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“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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Neil Denari to give public lecture: The Return to the Real
On Tuesday Neil M. Denari presents The Return to the Real as part of the University of Greenwich Open International Lecture. Come and join us at the Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055, Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus, on Tuesday 29th October at 18:00hrs.
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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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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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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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