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| Landscape Architecture
Plans are at an advanced stage to plant a tree at Francis Close Hall campus, Cheltenham, to commemorate David Dutson - a former landscape architecture student who went on to establish his own practice on the island of Jersey.
It is important that we remember this date as it was when one of our former students Piers Simon was a fatality resulting from the wave that devastated the island of Phi-Phi Don in Thailand on Boxing Day 2004.
Alan Steeves-Booker, former tutor on the landscape course and affectionately known as Booker, died in August 2024.
Eleanor Rawling gave this year’s John Simpson Memorial lecture last Tuesday. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was a local poet, born in Gloucester, was gassed in the first world war and suffered long afterwards spending much time in mental asylums. Despite this he never lost…
Robert Bray Associates will be running some masterclasses in Bristol in November, of particular interest to students (discounted prices): we are offering 60% discount up to 10 tickets for each masterclass. Please use the code – save60 – when booking.…
Charlea Community Gardens Community Interest Company (Charlea) owns a c.3 acre site in Brimscombe Stroud consisting of two fields. One of the two fields (The Play Area field) has recently been acquired from a developer following three refused planning applications. That…
The SKIPINNISH OAK in Lochaber, Scotland has been named UK Tree of the Year after winning a public vote against 11 other contenders. The “impressive specimen,” which is hidden away in a Skita spruce plantation at Achnacarry, supports an island…
ELEANOR RAWLING is giving this year’s lecture on Tuesday 12th November at 6.45pm in the large lecture theatre TC001 on Francis Close campus, University of Gloucestershire. A geographer, educationist and writer of two books on the local poet Ivor Gurney, Eleanor Rawling is this year’s guest…
I recently saw a piece in a newspaper describing the Islamic gardens at the Aga Khan Centre in the new Kings Cross development, in London. Yesterday I visited both. I started at the main Visitor Centre where the new development…