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New into Old
Providing some parking, a small amount of greenspace and the odd walkway may sound like a meat and potatoes job to many landscape architects. But when the proposed scheme revolves around the restoration of a Listed Ancient Monument, then you can hardly just go with the ‘here’s one I made earlier’ approach and leave it at that. At least not if you want to please the client, English Heritage and local historians.
This was the challenge that faced Linda Heron, Director of landscape architects Wolfgang and Heron, when commissioned by Braemore Properties to prepare the landscape design for a new villa apartment scheme on Park Rock in Nottingham city centre. The highly visible housing site abuts a wonderfully preserved set of medieval caves that have been carved out of the sandstone rock face, providing a surprising contrast to the ever-expanding cityscape that surrounds them. Each one is slightly different and has been moulded by their various uses over the years, but you would be more likely to guess you were looking at a picture of North Africa than one of Nottingham if shown a photograph of some of the caves in isolation.
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