Tag: urban design
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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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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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