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City Park in Bradford, designed by Gillespies landscape architects and urban designers on behalf of Bradford Council and supported by a multi-disciplinary design team, was officially launched on March 24th 2012. The landmark public space contains the largest city-centre water feature anywhere in the UK, a 4,000sq m mirror pool, and the UK’s tallest urban fountain which reaches a spectacular 100ft. This weeks round-up of landscape news from around the web  Image Credit: Flickr user Andy Carter The increasingly rare sight in UK’s green spaces – children playing | Martin Wainwright | Guardian Celebrate Spring at the Brooklyn Bridge Park | Kadie Yale | Metropolis Magazine Livable streets in Calgary | Steven Snell | Calgary Herald Saskatoon’s urban forest focus of pollen audit | Betty Ann Adam | Star Phoenix For more news during the week become a World Landscape Architecture fan on Facebook, Join our LinkedIN group, Follow us on Twitter @wlandscapearch or Weibo and then Circle us on Google+ Find a good link during the week? send it to [email protected] Image Credit: Flickr user andy_carter We announced the Public Open Space At Cronton Colliery – Ideas Masterplan Competition back in January. The Land Trust’s international design competition attracted 50 entries from all over the world, including innovative projects designed by teams in South Korea, Japan and Italy. The finalists have been announced with HASSELL, Hawkins/Brown, Michael Lee Architects and Edward Architecture & Matthew Riley making the final cut. Continue reading Cronton Colliery Competition Finalists Announced
Designated as one of the UK Government’s new Enterprise Zones last March, the Airport City project has received a substantial amount of interest and the detailed masterplan created by Manchester Airports Group (MAG) with Urban Strategies Inc., Drivers Jonas Deloitte, and Jones Lang LaSalle, including 5Plus Architects, AECOM, Davis Langdon and Planit. The masterplan sets out the vision to transform Manchester Airport from a transport hub into an international business destination.  Cronton Colliery - Courtesy of Land Trust A new ideas competition has been announced to create a masterplan for a new public open space and visitor destination at the former Cronton Colliery site in Merseyside. The competition is open to architects or landscape architects and architect-led multi-disciplinary design teams and is being run by the Land Trust in association with RIBA Competitions. The competition will be in two stages, judged anonymously in the first stage. A shortlist will then be invited to enhance and present their designs and potential funding propositions at interview as part of the second stage. The Land Trust’s aim is to create a public open space and visitor destination, with a self-sustaining funding structure, appealing to a range of leisure interests and working in conjunction with local tourist attractions such as Knowsley Safari Park and Stadt Moers Country Park. Continue reading Public Open Space At Cronton Colliery – Ideas Masterplan Competition |
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