Canary Wharf

practice profile

I put together a profile of Urbis, a landscape practice in Hong Kong which deals with Landscape Planning and Design, Rural and Urban Planning, Urban Design, Masterplanning, Environmental Impact Assessment and Mitigation Design, and Golf Course Planning and Design.Urbis was established in Hong Kong in 1977 and has since undertaken over 1,500 planning and design projects in the Asia Pacific region, South Asia and the Middle East. I chose to study this particular practice after viewing their website and seeing some of the diverse and beautiful projects that they have undertaken. These range from large scale urban pojects, both public and corporate spaces,environmental projects, large infrastructure projects, as well as golf courses.

Barnes Wetlands

Barnes Wetlands is a part of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust which was founded in 1946 by the naturalist and artist, Sir Peter Scott. It is located in south west london by the river thames. It is a 43 hectare site and has won several awards and is a classified Site of Special Scientific Interest. It attracts more than 180 different bird species each year, supports a breeding colony of endangered water voles, nine species of bat, over 400 species of moth and butterfly and more than half of all UK dragonfly and damselfly species.It was an amazing place to visit as it is so large and yet so close to central london and is a green haven surrounded by a built environment......well worth a visit.

innovations for the built environment

We visited the Innovations for the Built Environment exhibition at Earls Court which consisted of a series of over 300 exhibitors from Ecobuild, Futurebuild, Cityscape and regenex. There were many new technologies in architecture and landscape design being exhibited, and there was a lot of information about uses of materials in relation to sustainable urban design. These technologies were incorporated into the design of timber frame housing, public spaces and childrens play areas to name only a few of the concepts being exhibited. It was an interesting experience as well as being very informative about the new and very topical generation of sustainable design technologies which i was previously unaware of.