101 uses for a city hall

Found. Hillarious. . .

http://www.louishellman.co.uk/
http://www.bbdo.co.uk/blog/archives/tag/london-evening-standard

Focus Week - West London Walk

Paddington to Sloane Square on a drizzly November day.


Focus weeks are set out as an opportunity as landscape students to harness resources to support our studies. We visit various public spaces London and surrounding in order to familiarise ourselves with our environment and landscape practice taking place around us.


This visit took us from Paddington Basin through Hyde Park and finishing up in Sloane Square.


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Some photos below highlighting the walk. . .

Diana Memorial - Kathryn Gustafson

Serpentine - Gehry Pavilion deconstruction

Josephine + bike (now stolen) - Serpentine exhibit

London tourists

Lovely....if only a scratch and feel blog

Pendunculate oak - Hyde Park

Horse Chestnut - Hyde Park

Bridle path - Hyde Park

Bridle path - Hyde Park

Autum leaves - Hyde Park

Parklife - Thames Barrier visit

October 2008 - Part of our technical & theory module - a visit to Thames Barrier Park to select and survey an area of the site and build a scaled contour model in studio.

On previous visits to the park I have always found it to be empty, quite possibly because it's been mid-week but the days have been sunny and clear.....since it is so far out of my zone, I do wonder if it attracts the local families, mums and babes and other outside adventurers that the website makes a delightful appeal to:

''Set within 22 acres of lawns, trees and uniquely contoured Yew and Maygreen hedges you can discover the delights of this urban oasis. An excellent children's play area, 5 a side football/basketball court, great places to picnic and play, the Thames path, with magnificent views of the barrier, and a fountain plaza where 32 jets spring from the ground to provide a cooling and entertaining delight for children to splash and play.'' http://www.thamesbarrierpark.org.uk/

Wey & Arun Canal Restoration Project

Design Project 1 for levels 5, 6 and diploma..

Simon, Ed & Pat were trusting enough to ship the load of us down to Guildford and Farncome boat houses and rent narrow boats for the week. And what a great week it was. Captaining the Wanborough with Sean Wood in diploma as my first mate, (a proper french chef too) and Simon on board adding to the 'mature' boat feel.

The site is part of the Wey and Arun Navigation, 36km of which runs remains in its rural state as it crosses the Surrey and West Sussex countryside. This particular route was built over sometime in the 20th Century and a significant number of residential properties and infrastructure now block the route of the original canal.

Working closely with the Wey and Arun Canal Trust, we are to come up with proposals to reopen the canal. The aim is to come up with a design that enhances the area and ultimately links the restored canal to the south with the wider canal network via the River Wey navigable river. The aim is that the Wey + Arun canal would once again become a direct navigation link to the south coast.