After many phone calls and much pulling out of hair I am pleased to say that my online portfolio is now viewable online (rather than just on...

Blackpool is well established as one of the UK's most popular beach resorts, though for a number of years it has been beginning to look...

Derelict, abandoned buildings can be a blight on any landscape or town centre. I was interested therefore to see a novel way to make a disu...

It is staggering how difficult it can still be to recycle certain 'easily recyclable' items. Just this evening I was faced with an a...

London is finally set to receive it's cycle hire scheme in the next few months, with operations set to be ready for the summer. The sche...

For two days only Londoners had an opportunity to experience one of the worlds engineering masterpieces close up- for the first time in 145 ...

It is true that the inhabitants of today's society are not as intelligent that they used to be? Certainly they seem to be treated as suc...

'Decode- Digital Design Sensations' is a series of digital installations currently on show at the Victoria & Albert Museum in Lo...

Traffic lights- like it or not they are a feature on our roads which are unlikely to go away. There are many locations where traffic lights ...

On 2nd March I attended the annual EcoBuild convention at London's Earls Court exhibition centre. Ecobuild has become established as the...

Those of you who know me will know that one of my passions in life is photography. In fact, photography was my door into the world of Landsc...

A day's project using the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank as a base. Two (roughly 60 second) films produced on the theme ...

Barcelonetta Cross Section Section drawn at 1:200 scale

The scope of public space in Barcelona is huge. There are literally hundreds of parks dotted around the city, most of which ooze a sense of ...

One of the most interesting landscape and architectural practises that have been working in Barcelona in recent years is EMBT (Enric Miralle...

Barcelona is famous for it's architecture- especially that of Antoni Gaudi who designed several exquisitely finished buildings in the ci...

This years Landscape study trip was to the vibrant Spanish city of Barcelona. During our week in November we enjoyed beautiful weather- perf...

I made a prel iminary visit to the 1967 new town of Milton Keynes in November ahead of plans to write about planning of this new city for my...

Knollmead Permaculture Centre occupies a small site adjoining an allotment site on the banks of the Hogsmill River in Tolworth. Here a small...

As part of a focus week study visit I went to the Camley Street Natural Park site. This small park is located on the southern bank of the Re...

I took a trip with my family down to the Harold Hillier gardens in Romsey (near Southampton). The season was certainly turning quite Autum...

In contrast to Parc Andre Citroen the Jardin du Luxembourg is one of Paris' most established and most popular parks. It's layout is ...

During my stay in France there was little time to visit landscape projects, however I did make some exceptions, one being a visit to Parc An...

I was lucky to be able to a ttend a weeks Landscape Architecture workshop at the French Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage (school of Lan...

Less than a week after my return from Canada I found myself driving towards Paris with three of my student colleagues. We were on our way to...

The dune landscape has to be one of the most fascinating to exist. In just a few hundred meters one can travel from solid land to the ocean ...

In 2006 West8 and DTAH won the competition to redesign Toronto's waterfront. The key aim of the project was to reconnect the Canadian ci...