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Landscape Institute welcomes decision to select British-led landscape architecture consortium to design 2012 Olympic Park

17th March 2008

The Landscape Institute today welcomed the Olympic Delivery Authority’s decision to select leading landscape architects LDA Design-Hargreaves Associates to design the Olympic Park for the 2012 London Olympics.

The project will see LDA Design and American firm Hargreaves Associates working together in partnership with London-based design firms BBUK Studio Limited and Kinnear Landscape Architects. LDA, BBUK and Kinnear are all members of the Landscape Institute – the professional body and regulator for landscape architecture in the UK.

President of the Landscape Institute Nigel Thorne said: “All over the country, British landscape architects are remaking the UK's urban and rural landscapes, righting the environmental wrongs of the 19th and 20th centuries and rising to the challenges of climate change, regeneration and the restoration of a healthier relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural world.

“The Olympic Park in East London will be a new paradigm for land use and sustainable living in one of the world's great cities and a world class exemplar of our members' talents. The British landscape designers whose ideas are driving this project should be acknowledged and congratulated. It's good to have pulled in American practitioners too, but landscape is a cultural artefact and the success of the Olympic Park will depend on the skills, imagination and deep knowledge of Britain's parks of the British landscape architects Neil Mattinson, a Fellow of the Landscape Institute, and Andrew Harland MLI of LDA Design who led the consortium that has won the contest to create the Olympic Park.”