• Top 20 International Landscape Architecture & Design Websites 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-28 18:59:11
    We were pleased to see the GSP list of the Top 20 International Landscape Architecture & Design Websites 2012: Giants of Landscape Architecture Online – and very pleased to appear on the list: 1. Places @PlacesJournal 2. Gardenvisit.com – The Garden Landscape Guide @gardenvisit 3. Sustainable Design and Development Blog @landarchitects 4. The Dirt @landarchitects [...]

  • Wildflower meadows in London’s 2012 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

    Updated: 2012-08-23 19:31:52
    The BBC Today Programme (7.45 on 20.8.2012) had an item about the wildflower meadows being one of the great successes of the 2012 Olympic Games. I congratulate Nigel Dunnett and James Hitchmough on their planting design – and would like to know more about the origins of the planting design idea. Their history may be [...]

  • Modative Job Opening: Junior Architecture Position in Los Angeles

    Updated: 2012-08-21 17:27:00
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  • Mandala landscapes for stupas, temples, gardens and the Druk White Lotus School DWLS

    Updated: 2012-08-19 18:52:13
    We tend to think of a mandala (मण्डल) as a graphic pattern, though the Sanskrit derivation of the word is from the ‘cycles’ or ‘circles’ (ie ‘sections’ or ‘books’) of the Rig Veda. The Vedas were hymns recited on ritual occasions. Mandala patterns were developed to symbolise the rituals and the ideas underying the rituals. [...]

  • Garden design competition at the Druk White Lotus School in India

    Updated: 2012-08-17 10:05:17
    The principle of involving school children in the landscape and garden design for the space outside their classrooms applies in every land. This video illustrates the involvement of children from the Druk White Lotus School in Ladakh India. There are many reasons for involving school children in the design of school grounds: (1) the children [...]

  • From Srinagar to Amarnath and Ladakh via the Zoji La Pass

    Updated: 2012-08-09 14:56:35
    Should Ladakh be modernised? Can it be avoided? Anyone travelling to Kargil or Leh via the Zoji La must think ‘This CANNOT be the main road to Ladakh’, ‘It is inconceivable that most of the country’s fuel and construction materials are carried in on this road?’ ‘Surely it can’t be closed for six months/year?’ ‘Why [...]

  • Cross country event in Greenwich Park landscape

    Updated: 2012-08-06 05:32:21
    OK, I am a grunge re the 2012 London Olympics. For example, I drove past the Olympic Park last night at a peak period when the official websites were predicting fortissimo traffic chaos. The A12 was almost deserted and the Olympic Lane had nothing but empty buses. London is being described as a Ghost City, [...]

  • DWLS Dragon Garden in Shey, Ladakh, for the Druk White Lotus School

    Updated: 2012-08-06 01:25:10
    The architectural layout of the Druk White Lotus School, designed by Arup Associates, is based on a mandala. In the Sanskrit of the Rig Veda, the sections were called mandalas, meaning ‘cycles’ or ‘chapters’, rather as TS Eliot divided his Four Quartets into sections. The Rig Veda poems are often described as hymns and were [...]

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