| Landscape Architecture
| Landscape Architecture
As part of the Masters level module Landscape Design Studio the students visited Bristol, just 45 mins away on the train from Cheltenham. We visited four different site, of which the students need to choose one on which to base…
If anyone has the opportunity then get down to the Hauser and Wirth gallery in Bruton, Somerset this week to see the exhibition of Piet Oudolf’s drawings. It closes 5th October so this weekend is the last chance. You can…
The landscape 1st years and conversion students made a trip to Gloucester as part of the induction week activities. A walk through Gloucester centre demonstrated the incredible heritage and history that the city has, along with some of the problems…
Tuesday’s Induction Week project was an engaging and creative collaboration between our new first and Conversion year students in Landscape Architecture and Biology, Animal Biology, Ecology and Environmental Science. Their task: to create ‘bee hotels’ from a pile of household…
The artist Banksy is believed to be behind a piece of street art depicting three shadowy figures eavesdropping – three miles from the Government listening post GCHQ – in Hewlett Road. The artwork, which appeared in Cheltenham last week, depicts…
I have recently spent two weeks in Java (Indonesia) and three days in Singapore. The visits to Bogor Botanic Gardens, Java, and the Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, were of particular interest to me and are illustrated and described here.…
The Hardwick Temporal Creative Activation will facilitate the animation of the Hardwick campus car park through the creation of a temporary landscape enabling social interaction, musical performance and art installation. The event will run from the late afternoon till early evening Thursday April…
As part of the Professional Practice 2 module, the second year Landscape Architecture students visited Atkins Global offices in Aztec West, Bristol. We were given a talk by Nick Rowson (Regional Head of Landscape for South West England) outlining the…
On Day 5 the group traveled by train from Copenhagen in Denmark to Malmo in Sweden, just over the new(ish) Oresund Bridge – now famous from the excellent TV show The Bridge (if you haven’t seen this then have a…