The public realm and urban design has finally found its way high up on the agenda in government
and public thinking in recent years with the realisation that our cities need to and can become far
more liveable and sustainable.
Landscape Architecture is one of the central professions involved with these issues and Terra
Firma successive principals came to the firm with a strong grounding in local authority and public
domain work involving successful streetscape and open space provision within often highly complex
urban environments.
A large part of the Terra Firma portfolio is involved with urban intervention and regeneration work
and it can produce some of the most immediately satisfying results.
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Petershill,
City of London
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This predominantly hard landscape scheme and network of open spaces was designed by Terra Firma Principal Lionel Fanshawe while a senior Landscape Architect at Charles Funke Associates in the early 1990's (and was completed with some on-going subconsultancy from him after joining Terra Firma).
An important much used (and much acclaimed) processional route linking St. Paul's to what was later to become the Millennium Bridge to the Tate Modern, the design had to meet a highly complex set of objectives.
This included multi-directional and disabled access over large level changes which also needed to take into account car parking headroom beneath. These were met with a solution intended to be striking in its detail and uncluttered simplicity. |
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