| Landscape Architecture
| Landscape Architecture
March 31st this year is given as a four-star bore. The Severn Bore is one of Britain’s few truly spectacular natural phenomena. It is a large surge wave that can be seen in the estuary of the River Severn, where…
Landscape architecture is a design-based profession founded on an understanding of the landscape; that understanding derives from landscape aesthetics and environmental sciences, specifically geology, soils, hydrology, botany, climatology and ecology. The session last Tuesday focused on SOILS, how they are…
Some winter exercise after all the cold depressing days to date this semester was very welcome. The first year Appraising Landscapes class set off yesterday under a pleasant blue sky and walked along the Cotswold long-distance footpath from Seven Springs…
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.
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…
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…