European Landscape Architecture: Best Practice in Detailing

Sweden The falls across the Node have been designed in order to direct the storm-water towards the sur- rounding walls. A small ...

Daniaparken, Malmö raised, protecting wall along one of the sides were to have a covering of tarred wood. The paving of the uppe ...

Sweden 8.15 Detailed construction drawings of the Scouts (plan and section) 8.16 Detailed section through the granite wall ...

Daniaparken, Malmö ...

Sweden and constructed dry wall of two different kinds of Swedish granite. These have a robust character, with a rough surface m ...

Daniaparken, Malmö 8.20 Section through tree pit in the slope under a balcony 8.21 Detailed section through supporting structure ...

Sweden Evaluation Daniaparken is, by Swedish standards, a very large and costly project. The design and construction in this dis ...

Daniaparken, Malmö The park’s very ambitious programme of illumina- tion, created in cooperation with a specialist, plays a very ...

Sweden top soil, which could be described as a common standard for the size of trees and the kind of urban environment. The caus ...

Landscape architecture in the United Kingdom Great Britain is a relatively small, densely popu- lated and urbanised island. It i ...

United Kingdom Both of the projects to be described involve the remodelling of significantly placed urban spaces, adjacent to th ...

The Blue Carpet, Newcastle upon Tyne Case study The Blue Carpet, Laing Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Project data Project ...

United Kingdom Design philosophy The brief issued by Newcastle City Council called for a designer rather than a design. The idea ...

The Blue Carpet, Newcastle upon Tyne 9.4 Aerial view of the Blue Carpet, as laid ...

United Kingdom 9.5 Site plan ...

The Blue Carpet, Newcastle upon Tyne ...

United Kingdom fibre optics data-transmission fibre into terrazzo, then grinding off the ends, so ‘we could make pav- ing that b ...

The Blue Carpet, Newcastle upon Tyne 9.6 Bollard concept detail: section and plan 9.7 Illuminated bollard by night ...

United Kingdom Design development For Newcastle City Council the idea of employing a designer with distinctly adventurous and ar ...

The Blue Carpet, Newcastle upon Tyne than heavy blocks. Glass is so extraordinarily hard that a layer of only 5mm will have a we ...