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Martian colonies and monorails: the London that might have been
With plans that have included turning Trafalgar Square into a multi-storey carpark and erecting a heliport over the Thames at Charing Cross, design blog the Londonist’s 'Unbuilt London' series has offered readers a glimpse of a very different capital city... Read more
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Comment: Bad role models for landscape architecture Part II
In the second of our series looking at how bad design concepts can get projects off to a false start, Tim Waterman explores the shortcomings of the 'Slippery Abstraction'... Read more
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Don’t let the Hemel’s Water Gardens sink into oblivion
A campaign is under way to restore the Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe-designed Water Gardens in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire... Read more
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Is design only fit for the museum?
Amid a welter of media coverage about the creation of a new £80m design museum in Kensington, one of the original Design Museum’s founders has raised questions about the future of design itself... Read more
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BDP wins best new public space award
BDP has taken the top spot in the Best New Public Space category at this year’s London Planning Awards with its design for Margaret McMillan Park in Lewisham... Read more
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Gillespies’ designs to support next phase of MediaCityUK
Landscape practice Gillespies has prepared landscape and public realm design proposals to support 20-year plans for new phases of the BBC's Salford HQ MediaCityUK... Read more
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CLG Red Tape Challenge focuses on housing and construction
Housing and Construction the Department for Communities and Local Government's (CLG) Red Tape Challenge... Read more
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Comment: Simon Watkins on 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
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