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Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 2 Feb 2012, 7:18 am
Extremely rapid development is not generally compatible with far-sighted urban planning, but it does offer surprising advantages when it comes to retro-planning. The city of Zhuhai was one of China’s first Special Economic Zones, called into being by Deng Xiao Ping in the 1980’s. These were areas strategically chosen for accelerated development, Zhuhai because of [...]
2012 ‘ Green Dream’ for Chinese Landscape Architecture 2012 中国风景园林‘绿之梦“
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 28 Jan 2012, 10:25 pm
The CCTV Spring Festival Night Gathering is the most well-known program in China, and I was very glad to see this wonderful view during the whole program. This stage has been decorated by a number of green elements which related Landscape architecture profession visually: Green Roofs, Green Walls and various Green Spaces. Although I am [...]
iGardens, iCities, iArchitecture, iLandscapes, iPads and the Steve Jobs design theory
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 21 Jan 2012, 10:12 am
Steve Jobs is the most successful product designer of modern times, bar none. Nobody has built so many fabled products. Nor have they built (what was briefly) the world’s largest coroporation in such a short working life – or such powerful brand loyalty. So if cities, gardens, architectures and landscapes are ‘products’ then what can [...]
Laser hologram projection of dancing girls at Canary Wharf Underground station
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 15 Jan 2012, 6:14 am
London Transport need not worry about these girls obstructing the flow of communters from their suburban pads to the Canary Wharf money factory. They are a holographic projection into a thin cloud of disco fog, intended to give the salarymen and salarygirls a reminder of their next escape to Ibiza. [Nor do London Transport need [...]
Campaign to restore Jellicoe’s Water Garden in Hemel Hempstead New Town
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 14 Jan 2012, 6:16 am
Thank you to Tamzin Baker for her article Streams of the subconscious, in today’s Financial Times, which lends support to the campaign for Dacorum District Council to restore the Water Garden which Geoffrey Jellicoe designed for Hemel Hempstead New Town. See also: Jellicoe’s Subconscious Approach to Landscape Design Could Hemel Hempsted’s Jellicoe Water Gardens be managed [...]
Kongjian Yu’s Bigfoot Revolution for Chinese landscape architecture 俞孔坚 大脚革命 中国园林建筑
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 10 Jan 2012, 7:37 pm
Landscape architecture: Keynote of Kongjian Yu from hayal oezkan on Vimeo. Kongjian Yu has a good claim to the title of China’s leading landscape architect. He is an author, a professor and the employer of 600 landscape architects. In 2011 he gave an IFLA keynote lecture at the World Congress in Zurich. So who, in [...]
London’s Roman Palace Garden at Cannon Street Station
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 7 Jan 2012, 10:24 am
Reading about London’s Roman archaeology, I was deligted to find that the site of the Provincial Governor’s Palace is open to the public. It is now the foyer of Cannon Street Station (ie the foyer is above the garden site). So I went to take a photograph. My camera went ‘click’ at 09.52.15 on 05.1.2012 [...]
A sad tree poem in Greenwich Park in the new year
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 3 Jan 2012, 5:20 pm
London has been experiencing a very heavy rain and wind from last midnight, fortunately, it turned to sunny later today. I had a long walked in Greenwich Park this afternoon and came across a extremely sad thing which is that a historical tree on the most lovely top view in Greenwich Park was totally flown [...]
Lady Boothroyd wants to get rid of her garden mole problem
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 30 Dec 2011, 7:56 am
The former Speaker of the House of Commons was on Radio 4′s Today programme this morning, asking for advice on her garden mole problem. She said they are mole mountains, not molehills. BBC staff found ‘experts’ who recommended poison gas and mole traps. They also advised that when a mole dies, another mole ‘comes to [...]
Tim Mowl’s Youtube garden history lecture on Claremont and William Kent
Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com | 27 Dec 2011, 5:38 pm
Congratulations to Tim Mowl for providing the best garden history content on Youtube (one can’t be quite sure: The FAQ says ’48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, resulting in nearly 8 years of content uploaded every day’). The lecture was given at Claremont Landscape Garden and was about the history of this garden [...]
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