Keith and I were fortunate enough to be invited to this year’s ICE South East England Engineering Excellence Awards 2017 as guests of Peter Brett Associates. … Read the rest
Category: Landscape Architect
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Landscape architects: worth our weight in gold! by Alison Galbraith
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Partly preserved: the next stage of West Pier’s story
Read Time:56 SecondAt terra firma we are pleased to have been involved at detailed design stage with the public realm scheme that flanks the BAi360 on Brighton’s seafront – the award winning and highly innovative observation tower or ‘vertical pier’ designed by Marks Barfield Architects.… Read the rest
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A new public space for London – by Alex
Read Time:1 Minute, 31 SecondThe end of June saw the momentous occasion of a new public space in London being opened in by the Duchess of Cambridge.… Read the rest
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Book review – by Alice
Read Time:2 Minute, 54 SecondNew Nordic gardens, Scandinavian Landscape Design by Annika Zetterman. Published by Thames and Hudson March 2017. ISBN 978-0-500-51945-5.
This is a specialist book that I’d happily recommend to anyone – perhaps best appreciated over a cup of coffee with sockerkaka or glass of Jordgubbar Absolut.… Read the rest
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MAD CITY – AN INTERNATIONAL HAPPENING FOR URBAN PLANNERS
Read Time:1 Minute, 34 SecondCity planning is stuck in last century, at a time when start-up culture, mixed-use development and sharing is already there.… Read the rest
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Invasive Plants by Isla Denton-Thompson
Read Time:3 Minute, 50 Second(Schedule 9 plants) – Section 14 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
Part of the job of many Landscape Architects involves designing planting schemes for clients.… Read the rest
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View from the canopy, by guest author Bernie Harverson
Read Time:4 Minute, 27 SecondMy name is Bernie Harverson and I am a self-employed Arboricultural Consultant with 47 years experience in the industry. I acquired my love of trees from the age of 11 when my parents moved from urban Ashford west London to rural leafy Haslemere in Surrey where, instead of climbing drainpipes and onto garage rooves I started climbing trees – ‘free climbing’ of course as there were no lifelines and safety harnesses in evidence then!… Read the rest