We have been working for the last five months on a major landscape project at Stockley Park Business Park near Heathrow Airport and the project was completed over the Easter period.

Welcome to Claudia Funtaro

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We welcomed Claudia Funtaro to our team as an assistant landscape architect in October 2013. Claudia has been producing 3D visualisations for our clients past and present and has been supporting a range of landscape and arboricultural assessments that we have completed in the last three months. Below is one of the visualisations that we have produced.

   

Nice Message of Appreciation Received from Head Teacher at Victoria Park Nursery School Newbury regarding our work on the Outdoor Learning Garden

Landscape Design and Planning for New Nursing Home in Peterborough

We have been working for nearly four years on the design and planning of the gardens and external spaces for the new Warwick Road nursing home in the Walton area of Peterborough for and on behalf of Landform Developments and Neil MacLeod Architects. The design features planted up seating areas enclosed with trellis fences, a sensory garden with raised beds, aromatic and tactile plants, bird baths/feeding stations, a woodland walk and extensive buffer planting of native trees and shrubs between the premises and the A15 dual carriageway. The new nursing home will care for people with conditions such as Dementia and those with mobility needs. The local press, Peterborough news, have published an article about the start of the construction of the nursing home, a further description of the facilities and the creation of 100 new jobs. We attach a link to it below along our layout drawing for the external spaces and gardens. We are excited that work has finally started on site with completion sometime next year.

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/health/health-news/new-multi-million-pound-peterborough-care-home-to-create-100-jobs-1-5434328

Victoria Park Nursery School,Newbury Outdoor learning Space/Garden Officially opened

We were pleased to attend the official opening on 27 June of the Outdoor Learning Area by the Mayor of Newbury that we designed for Newbury's Victoria Park Nursery school and children's centre. Please visit the following link for details: http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2013/victoria-park-nursery-unveils-outside-learning-centre

The head teacher, Fiona Wilkinson, said that the school and the children are very pleased with the design and the construction of the outdoor learning area into several learning zones with various items of play equipment that provide both physical and mental challenges. Some additional images of the play areas are attached below:

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Vauxhall-The Missing Link Competition March-April 2013

We teamed up with local landscape practice Draffin Associates to enter a competition sponsored by the Vauxhall One organisation, The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Landscape Institute (LI). The exciting proposal is to connect this part of London with the South Bank development to the north east and the new Battersea Power station American embassy development to the south west. The proposals also includes creating more pedestrian friendly shared spaces and reviving the Vauxhall pleasure gardens which were a famous pleasure gardens that existed until the 1860's. There were at least 100 entries form 21 countries for the competition and although we were not selected as the winner the images and extracts from our submission demonstrate our joint abilities in Urban Design and Green Infrastructure imaging.

Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Design Review Panel Meeting

Interesting RB Windsor and Maidenhead design review panel presentation yesterday at the town hall to review Maidenhead Waterways scheme and proposed residential and retail developments in the town centre. Seemed like the scale of the building proposed were over the top and the public realm needed to be given better emphasis. Also saw a totally inappropriate art deco building design presented by a duo who reminded us of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy sympathetic to that era.

Vauxhall The Missing link RIBA Competiton

Taking a special interest in the results of this Competition. Watch this space.