Spring is coming and hundreds of flowers blossoms almost in one night time. I am not sure whether everybody love the landscape full of gorgeous new beauties, but usually, landscape architects show their works in a spring scene, so that the drawing works could be visually fantastic. But is spring always with us in the whole [...]
The above painting is from the 2012 Art exhibition in Charlton House, which name is Rose. For general visitors in Greenwich, it should be a little odd, as there is no Rose flowers in this painting, nor a clear face in it. However, for people live in Greenwich and always visit the Rose Garden in [...]
Influenced by William H. Whyte’s theory about Public open space, I started survey in the public squares in central London from last October. Whyte’s main theory to make a small urban space popular is to design a place which can provide seats, food, sunshine and circulation to route. Almost at the same time, I had [...]
Famous Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl after a nine month study of central Sydney in 2007 called for the addition of three new public squares along George Street: “His report paints a picture of a city at war with itself – car against pedestrian, high-rise against public space. “The inevitable result is public space with an [...]
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Congratulations to the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) for publishing a re-design of Parliament Square’s urban landscape, also discussed on this blog this last year (see The landscape architecture of Parliament Square, Westminster, London UK). My comments on the LCC design are: it concentrates on traffic at the expense of other considerations the urban design history [...]