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Aloft Hotel Opens The new Aloft Hotel opens at Excel London. The landscape design creates an exciting arrival to the hotel with a 6m high curtain of water flowing down into the entrance plaza. Tearrace and outdoor cafe spaces are also created within the dynamic landscape which wraps around this Jestico and Whiles building.
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Forgotten Spaces Steve McCoy, Senior designer at PLACE has achieved second prize in the RIBA run Forgotten Spaces competition. The proposal creates an urban climbing tunnel giving schoolchildren and thrill seekers alike the chance to experience rock climbing, abseiling and potholing. The ideas compition attracted 138 entries to rejuvenate neglected spaces in London.
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Clay Farm Planning Approval Planning approval has been granted for plots 19 and 20 at Clay Farm. On behalf of SKANSK RDUK, PLACE submitted succesful landscape and open space proposals as part of the 128 dwelling development.
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Trees in London Tony Edwards, Director at PLACE dicusses a policy for planting trees in London. In the October issue of Planning in London, Tony puts forwards a strategy for succesful tree planting in the capital.
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Clay Farm Plots 19 and 20 of the Clay Farm masterplan in Cambridge have been submitted for planning. As part of the wider Clay Farm masterplan, plots 19 and 20 will provide 128 residential dwellings. A central green creates a focal space for the new residential community.
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RIBA Award 2011 Stoke Newington School has won an RIBA Award. PLACE were landscape architects on the remodelling of Stoke Newington School in Hackeney as part of the BSF programme. The Awards are annual and recognise projects of high standard which make a substantial contribution to their local environment.
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PLACE Start on Free Schools PLACE work on their first Free Schools project. Stour Valley Community School has been submitted for planning. The site proposals add to and refurbish the existing site, around a refurbished school building. In consultation with the School PLACE produced proposals including a new arrival plaza, courtyard and sports facilities.
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Raynes Park Public Realm Work starts on site for Raynes Park Public Realm Enhancements. This first stage of the public realm vision produced by PLACE working with Merton Coucil is currently on site. This first phase will create a new plaza at the station with improved pedestrian crossing. The works have removed unecessary street clutter and reconfigured the pedestrain crossings to improve movement as well as creating a plaza space with seating and tree planting to ecourage people to linger and socialise in the space. Click here to see the full public realm proposals on Merton's website |
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Tony Edwards Joins Design Council Review Panel PLACE Director, Tony Edwards joins the Design Council as part of CABE's national design panel. The panel provides expert advice to councils, developers and communities through reviews of major proposed projects both at a national and local level.
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Hackney Design Awards Clapton Girls' Technology College wins at the Hackney Design Awards 2010 as well as picking up the peoples choice award. PLACE as Landscape Architects provided design solutions for the succesful scheme which considered setting, movement and outdoor spaces for teaching and socialising. |
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Commercial Workspace Award 500 Brook Drive has been awarded regional winner in the Commercial Workspace Awards. PLACE were landscape architects on this BREEAM Excellent rated project and made valuable contributions to achieving this rating. The judges made reference to this exceptional development and noted the building has all the makings of a vibrant corporate workplace. PLACE are also responsible for the landscape management of Green Park which which has previously won a Landscape Institute and other awards.
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Merton Business Awards PLACE shorlisted for best small business in this years Merton Business Awards.
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Open House London Place have recently completed the hard and soft landscape works at Stoke Newington Science and Media College, which will now be opened to the public as part of Open House London. Open House London takes place on the 18th and 19th of September and is an initiative to open up great building across London to the public free of charge. Click the link below for more details.
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Green Park Village Place, as part of the masterplanning team for St Edward Homes, has submitted a planning application for a new mixed use development in Reading. Green Park village is centred round an existing lake and includes 750 new homes, new railway station, a primary school and a number of commercial buildings. The landscape scheme includes various play areas and wildlife areas linked to a Sustainable Urban Drainage System to extend the successful habitats created in the adjoining award winning 180 acre Green Park business park.
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Our Lady Convent School Planning approval has been granted for Our Lady Convent High School in Hackney. Place working with Jestico and Whiles produced landscape proposals for the succesful application, which forms part of the BSF programme.
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Oasis Academy, Mayfield Planning approval has been granted for Oasis Acedemy, Mayfield in Southampton. Place as part of the Carillion team, produced landscape proposals for the succesful application, which forms part of the BSF programme. The project is due to go on site at the end of this year.
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Allegria, Hotel, Spa & Clubhouse Working with Jestico + Whiles Architects, PLACE have started work on the landscape masterplan for a Hotel, Spa and Clubhouse for the Allegria development, Cairo, Egypt. The landscape proposals include car parking, hotel gardens, sports facilities, external dining terraces, water features and swimming pools set in lush shaded parkland overlooking the pyramids and the Allegria golf course.
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