Category: Landscape Architect

Portsmouth (UK). Nice (France). Poles apart. More accurately 804 miles apart. But worlds apart in terms of seafronts? Don’t get me wrong, I like both.… Read the rest

I’m a fan of etymology If you’re wondering what that means, it means the meaning of words. Or more accurately, it studies the route of words.… Read the rest

Sensory Garden, Liss Infant School

Designed by Alison Galbraith when her son attended Liss Infant School and constructed during the summer holiday of 2008, the garden replaced an unused and hard to maintain grass bank.… Read the rest

 Every man’s home is his castle and every man’s lawn is his bowling green/golf course/football pitch/nemesis (depending on your choice of sport, or lack of it).… Read the rest

Arboriculturist Bernie Harverson who works independently from our offices (but is a frequent Terra Firma sub-consultant) has offered some useful insights into the latest BS on trees; these are inevitably important considerations for landscape architects:

Without much prior warning or pre-issue seminars on 30^th April 2012 we in the ‘Arb World’ had British Standard 5837:2012 thrust upon us and for a while there was a mad panic to get our heads around it.… Read the rest

Terra Firma were in the limelight recently with the opening of Southampton’s first zero carbon footprint housing development by Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud.… Read the rest