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- Look at the bigger picture, says landscape architect - Press & Journal
A landscape architect refused yesterday to give his view on the acceptability of long-term landscape damage caused by parts of the proposed Aberdeen bypass’s southern leg.
read more @ the SOURCE: Press & Journal – Look at the bigger picture, says landscape architect
- Landscape Institute Climate Change Position Statement
The Landscape Institute has published a Climate Change Position Statement, ‘Landscape architecture and the challenge of climate change’.
Read more @ the SOURCE: Landscape Institute (UK) – Climate Change Position Statement.
- First Shopping Center by World-Renowned Architect Daniel Libeskind Opens
Westside Shopping and LeisureCentre, an exciting new development designed by famed architect Daniel Libeskind, opened its doors to the public on Wednesday, October 8. What manyyears ago seemed a visionary, perhaps even utopian, concept for a new city district of Bern has finally become a reality. In addition to the 55 shops,10 restaurants and bars, [...]
- Redesigning a polluted province in Italy - International Herald Tribune
For places as far gone as this one, however, a new breed of landscape architects is recommending a radical solution: not so much to restore the environment as to redesign it.
Read more @ the SOURCE: Redesigning a polluted province in Italy - International Herald Tribune.
- The world’s 50 most beautiful gardens - Part one: Europe - Telegraph
Telegraph.co.uk is listing the world’s 50 most beautiful gardens a great list and quick summary for all those students learning landscape architecture history. Also good for those of us who have dreamt of travelling around the world visiting beautiful gardens.
The world’s 50 most beautiful gardens - Part one: Europe - Telegraph.
- Making your garden grow sustainably
Landscape architect Kate Bridger outlines the latest thinking on landscaping newly-built developments and designing sustainable gardens.
SOURCE: icNewcastle - Making your garden grow sustainably.
- A DIY Guide To Building A Green Roof Hits The Virtual Shelves.
London, England. Two of the UK’s leading proponents of green roofs have teamed up to produce ‘THE DIY GUIDE TO GREEN & LIVING ROOFS’ - a guide aimed at individuals with a Do-It-Yourself inclination along with those having trouble persuading local contractors to take up the challenge of installing a green roof on their behalf.
‘The [...]
- Lisbon developers waiting for buildings to be condemned
The Portugal Resident reports that “HUNDREDS OF Lisbon city centre buildings are standing empty because owners don’t have the money to do them up.
Despite being granted planning permission for improvements and change of use, many 19th and early 20th century buildings remain in a dilapidated and rundown state because the owners believe it is cheaper [...]
- Uncontrolled outdoor advertising floods Ukrainian capital
Caught in a blizzard of outdoor advertising, Kyiv seems to have turned into a slick commercial capital. But while some find the advertising blitzkrieg alluring and profitable, others are desperately trying to cut through the clutter.
Read more @ the SOURCE: Kyiv Post – Uncontrolled outdoor advertising floods Ukrainian capital.
- New entrance at Vale do Lobo
JARDIM VISTA, led by Richard Westcott, has recently landscaped a new entrance at one of the Algarve’s most prestigious tourist resorts - Vale do Lobo.
Read more @ the SOURCE: Euro Weekly News – New entrance at Vale do Lobo
- The rise of the urban shepherd - Society - The Guardian
It’s not often you go from your day job to turning a sheep over and inspecting its hooves,” says Brigitta Richards. A nursery nurse, Richards is one of a growing number of volunteer shepherds recruited by Brighton and Hove city council as part of an initiative to reintroduce grazing to its urban parks, after an [...]
- The Landscape Institute and the Trees and Design Action Group
Championing the value of large trees in the urban environment
The environmental, economic and social benefits of trees are well documented. Members of The Landscape Institute routinely work to ensure that trees form an integral part of the urban landscape and public realm. However, the valuable contribution made by large-growing trees in particular is often compromised [...]
- West 8 wins competition Integration of Sewer plant in Landscape park Diezemonde Den Bosch
West 8 announced in Dutch that they have won a park competition the following is a translation of the announcement.
The challenge is an integral plan for the sewage plant (RWZI), where the new building is connected to the national park Diezemond. It indicated how the water purification plant in a responsible and innovative manner can [...]
- RMJM help inner city youths become architects
Scotsman.com reports that RMJM the Edinburgh based firm has launched a project worth £1m in conjuction with the Stephen Lawrence Trust to encourage more inner city youths from ethnic minorities to pursue a career in architecture.
RMJM worked on the Scottish Parliament building hopes that the project will increase the diversity and creativity of architecture and help address the global skills shortage [...]
- 230ft wind turbine for Opera House
Jon Land of 24dash.com reports that Glynedebourne Opera House of East Sussex, UK will install a 230ft (70m) to reduce the venue’s carbon emissions by 70% and will reduce its impact on the environment.
SOURCE: 24dash – Glyndebourne Opera House given go-ahead for 230ft wind turbine>
- Dubai developer to build new city in Poland for 50,000
Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem is ready to build a 50-thousand city in Balin near Chrzanów in the industrial south of Poland – “Polska” daily reports. The investment is to be financed by Al Nakheel Properties. The same developer is currently building the World – a man-made archipelago of 300 islands designed in the shape of [...]
- Design expert looks to continent to put risk back into playtime - Yorkshire Evening Post
FASHION guru turned urban design expert Wayne Hemingway is one of the most outspoken critics of British playgrounds.He wants UK councils to follow the lead of other European countries like Germany and Denmark, which have a more imaginative approach to play and refuse to sacrifice risk and fun because of health and safety regulations.
Yorkshire Evening [...]
- Eco-towns should be near urban sprawl, say planning chief - Birmingham Post
The Government should drop proposals for eco-towns in rural locations and concentrate instead on developing sustainable communities in urban areas, according to the chairman of Birmingham’s planning committee.
Councillor Peter Douglas Osborn said the council would be pushing ahead with its own plans to build five eco-towns within the Birmingham city boundary.
He said locations favoured by [...]
- Golf ‘ruining our green and pleasant land’
The sport’s growing popularity has led to dozens of important parks being turned into 18-hole courses, leading to what English Heritage claims is “irreversible damage to the historic environment”.
The warning comes as the organisation prepares to launch the first comprehensive register of the country’s neglected historic treasures this week.
SOURCE: Telegraph.co.uk
- Landscape failed in eco-town plans, says Landscape Institute
The importance of landscape is neglected in the Government’s eco-towns plans, the Landscape Institute said this week.
Chair of the Landscape Institute Policy Committee Jon Lovell said eco-towns provided “an outstanding opportunity” but warned that the sustainability of the proposed eco-towns depended on the integration of landscape planning, design and management. He said that green space [...]
