• Korea’s Four Rivers Landscape Restoration Plan

    Updated: 2012-06-28 08:21:57
    Having completed a remarkable river landscape reclamation plan for the Cheonggyecheon, Korea now plans to ‘restore’ four more rivers. I put ‘restore’ in quotation marks because the intention is to more forwards instead of backwards. This may be the correct policy but it is surely the wrong verb. Korea has a commendably ambitious Green Growth [...]

  • Ten thoughts about garden design and landscape architecture

    Updated: 2012-06-20 15:59:34
    This chair is near the spot where it was washed ashore, perhaps from a shipwreck, leading to ten thoughts about garden and landscape design: Gardens are enclosed. Landscapes are un-enclosed. Designers use the materials of nature to express ideas about Nature. Gardens make us think, as well as making us comfortable. Poetry and painting normally [...]

  • Michigan Pavilion

    Updated: 2012-06-17 21:32:00
    One of the new projects under development here at the office, this poolside pavilion features a central fireplace and changing area loosely defined by a cloud-like mosquito netting within a greater volume. Large doors clad in vertically-oriented dark-stained cedar open and close to provide varying levels of privacy and security. More soon!

  • Changing attitudes to religion, marriage and the environment

    Updated: 2012-06-12 18:59:50
    In the 1950s, people felt shame-faced about being athiest and/or ‘living in sin’, while the Ministry of Agriculture gave special grants for removing hedges, draining wetlands and planting conifers. These attitudes have been reversed. Europeans want to conserve everything and speak confidently about religion being ‘a load of rubbish’. But their attitude to religions is [...]

  • The Wish Trees of Chelsea, a 2012 Fringe project by landscape architect Kendra Inman

    Updated: 2012-06-05 09:15:06
    ‘Everyone has a wish’. Landscape architect Kendra Inman helped wishes grow on trees for the 2012 Chelsea Fringe. The labels (produced by school children, students and locals) were decorated to look like flowers and fruits. They were hung from trees at Dovehouse Green on the King’s Road in Chelsea, London as a contribution to the [...]

  • River Thames Flower Festival Pageant for Chelsea Fringe 2013

    Updated: 2012-06-03 17:49:00
    Today’s Royal Jubilee Pageant on the Thames was a useful trial run for the 2013 Chelsea Fringe Flower Festival Pageant, proposed for 2013. The lessons to learn are Best not to have the whole event on one very wet day The boats definitely need  more flowers than today’s event – Union Jacks are no substitute [...]

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