Newspaper Archive
March 2006 Issue
March 2006
The newspaper of the Landscape Institute, Vista, provides news from across the world of landscape architecture. Take a look below at some of this month's stories.
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East meets West
Robinson Landscape has been invited by the Yubei District Government in China to design a public square and landscape setting for a new collection of Government office buildings and facilities. ODPM Design Seminar
Marion Bowman, director general of the LI, joined a small group of key figures in the built environment sector at a seminar on urban design arranged by leading Government Ministers last month. Teamwork Triumph
Attwood Green regeneration project in Birmingham has won the Deputy Prime Minister’s Award for Sustainable Communities 2005, beating three other finalists. Attwood Green pipped Springhill Co-housing Community in Stroud, A New Deal for Braunstone in Leicester and Taking part in Gravesham in Kent to the post, to triumph in the prestigious competition. UK Signs Up
The Government has signed the European Landscape Convention, a move that has been warmly welcomed by the Landscape Institute. 