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Comment: Simon Watkins on HS2
- 19 Jan 2012 |
- HS2
Simon Watkins CMLI asks whether a proposal as potentially destructive to the landscape as HS2 should prompt us to consider whether there might be a more intelligent or creative way to improve the UK’s economic and environmental resilience… Read more
Obituary for Douglas Sampson
- 19 Jan 2012 |
- Douglas Sampson
James Welch recalls the life of Douglas Sampson (1936–2011), landscape architect and founding Partner of Derek Lovejoy & Partner... Read more
Comment: Bad role models for landscape architecture
- 19 Jan 2012 |
- Bad role models Charles Jencks
In the first of a six part series on how bad design concepts can get projects off to a false start, Tim Waterman explores the shortcomings of the 'Inflexible Abstraction'... Read more
Jo Yeates memorial garden on track
- 21 Dec 2011 |
- Jo Yeates
A year after the death of landscape architect Jo Yeates, funding for a memorial garden in her honour is progressing steadily... Read more
Becoming a Pathway Examiner
- 7 Dec 2011 |
- Catherine Lester Pathway examiner
Landscape architect Catherine Lester from Taylor Young on what it's like to be a Pathway Examiner... Read more
Professor James Hitchmough on designing for maintenance
- 7 Jul 2011 |
- James Hitchmough
A Q&A with horticultural expert and official ‘meadow-man’ of the 2012 Olympic Park, Professor James Hitchmough from the University of Sheffield… Read more
LI appoints first academic fellow
- 7 Jul 2011 |
- Eckart Lange
Professor Eckart Lange, head of Landscape at the University of Sheffield, has become the Landscape Institute's first academic fellow… Read more
Obituary: William Gillespie
- 23 Jun 2011 |
- Obituary
William “Bill” Gillespie, founding partner of Gillespies and former President of the LI, sadly passed away on 3 May 2011… Read more