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📅 One month to go to hit our 2024/5 #bursary deadline. If you're a landscape architecture, urban design or planning student studying in the UK, listen up. We've a great challenge for you - to remake the British Isles so that it works better for all and so that the UK can meet the urgent challenges the country faces today, including #climate breakdown and #biodiversity loss. Can the UK’s #landscape point to a fairer future? Be radical in your remaking and reach for the unfamiliar. The prize? Three awards of £2,000, plus four weeks' paid work experience in one of our eight studios. At least one award will go to someone who has faced challenges in pursuing further education. Everything you need to know is here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e4EqNg2k The clock 🕛 is ticking ... You have until midnight Friday 21st February. Have a go. We'd love to see your ideas. And if you think you know someone who is studying in the UK and would love to enter, please share 🙏 Architects’ Journal World Landscape Architecture Building Design. The Developer and Festival of Place University of Glasgow University of Westminster University of Kent Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd University of Plymouth Oxford Brookes University The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL University for the Creative Arts The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh University Student Architecture Society The Glasgow School of Art Landscape at Greenwich The University of Sheffield and School of Architecture and Landscape University of Sheffield University of Birmingham Landscape Architecture at Birmingham Newcastle University Newcastle University Architecture Society Leeds Beckett University Landscape Architecture at Leeds Beckett The University of Huddersfield Birmingham City University Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) Kingston University Kingston School of Art University of Brighton University of East London University of Strathclyde PSA_Portsmouth School of Architecture Arts Arts University Bournemouth Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham University of the West of England #RegenerativeBritain #StudentsinUK #Challenge #Placemaking #Bursary #Competition #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Planning

Ending a busy day with really good news – LDA Design’s #planning team has helped to secure the go ahead for Kitland Solar ☀️ in North #Somerset. The 88-hectare Statkraft UK scheme includes a 39.9MW #solar array – enough to power the equivalent of 13,250 homes a year. Plus, a #battery #energy storage system and grid connection. Close to the stunning Mendip Hills, the proposals required a particularly sensitive #landscape and ecological design response. LDA Design worked closely with North Somerset Council and the local #community to ensure a positive outcome. This included reorganising public rights of way and changing layout and planting in response to feedback. The site is also within the consultation zone for the North Somerset and Mendip Bats Special Area of Conservation. The strategy for greater and lesser horseshoe bat mitigation involved moving cattle to a large, arable field and then splitting it up into five separate cattle grazing fields, as well as creating new hedgerows, foraging habitats and cattle shelters providing the bats with a steady supply of tasty dung beetles. The public access and landscape enhancements across the site are designed to improve access to nature and connectivity between the adjacent villages. The scheme has a 94% biodiversity net gain figure for habitats. Benefits include: 🚶♀️ 3,778m of net additional definitive public rights of way 🌻 Over 17ha of wildflower planting 🌳 5.8ha of new woodland 🌿 5,750m of new hedgerows 💧 Four new ponds and the reinstatement of three former ponds 🐸🍏 A new wetland and community orchard A great result. Well done Statkraft UK BSG Ecology PJA ASPECT TREE CONSULTANCY LIMITEDHeadland Archaeology (UK) Ltd CampbellReith Wardell Armstrong LLP (part of SLR) KERNON COUNTRYSIDE CONSULTANTS LTD ACCON UK Limited. And from LDA Design, Ed Salter Matthew Gibson-King Ruth Knight Marina Solodova and Paul Connelly 👏 #planning #solarfarm #renewableenergy #infrastructure #biodiversity #outcomes #energy #KitlandSolar #Statkraft

A milestone moment for Legal & General’s Bristol Temple Island which has gone in for #planning. With designs by Zaha Hadid Architects and LDA Design, this will be a fantastic new addition to the city. The proposed #regeneration will turn a derelict former diesel depot into a lively neighbourhood, with 520 new homes, targeting 40% affordable, plus two new office buildings (aiming for BREEAM Outstanding), retail, a hotel and conference facilities - all set in an intuitive #landscape shaped by the area’s riparian characteristics. As #LDADesign director and project lead Catherine Birkin explains, “We have rooted our design thinking in the specificity of its location by the River Avon, and the ways in which the rhythmic presence of the tidal range informs a powerful sense of place. Twice a day, mesmerising textures and shapes are exposed in the mud banks and these have helped direct the circulation, planting, and materiality.” Well done to all involved, including from LDA Design Catherine Birkin Jemma Hall Lewis Turner and all the #Bristol studio. https://lnkd.in/ebFUfQui Full project team here ➡️ Potter Raper Zaha Hadid Architects LDA Design Avison Young Hoare Lea Buro Happold Currie & Brown Cast Consultancy Pegasus Group Nicholas Pearson Associates DPR CSquared Savills 📸 bloomimages   #Bristol #BetterCity #BristolTempleIsland #Regeneration #NewNeighbourhood #Biodiversity #RiverAvon #Placemaking #Developement #UrbanDesign #Architecture #LandscapeArchitecture

Join if you can for this month's The Academy of Urbanism (AoU) coffee break with LDA Design Sara Crichton and Kirstin Taylor who will discuss delivering #biodiversity gains and #planning requirements for improving biodiversity in urban environments from the #design perspective. From our brilliant #Glasgow studio, Sara and Kirstin have helped to deliver a host of incredible projects, including the Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen, winner of the 2024 #AoU award for Great Place. Open to everyone. Join if you can. 📅 6 Feb 2025 🕛 Noon to 12:45pm 💻 Online https://lnkd.in/e5ei2U3n #AoUevents #biodiversity #landscapearchitecture #design #greenurbanism #betterplaces #urbandesign #bettercities #greenercities #sustainabledesign #Scotland

Great to see that Reflect, the pavilion created and named by the young #placemakers of Fitzrovia Youth in Action with MATT+FIONA, and the new National Temperance Hospital Gardens by LDA Design are now open. What a joyful project this has been and brilliant working with #FYA, MATT+FIONA, HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd, Integral Engineering Design and Mace to bring to life this new #meanwhile #community space, on the site of a former HS2 construction yard near #Euston station. Well done to all involved, including LDA Design's Dafydd Warburton and Manfredi Pedone, FYA's Eleanor Rudd and M+F's Jonathan Shmulevitch and George Pope. We’re looking forward to seeing more events in the space as the days lengthen and things warm up a bit! But for now 👏 Huge thanks for 📸 to Nick Turpin and Jonathan Shmulevitch / MATT+FIONA (3 and 8). #London #EustonStation #CommunityGardens #HS2 #Community #YoungDesigners #CoCreation #FitzroviaYouthinAction #GreenSpace #BetterCity #PlayfulCity

Ending the week with a lovely #SketchFriday and a watercolour masterclass courtesy of urban designer and masterplanner, Evgeny Didorenko. Evgeny, who is based in our #London studio and works on many of LDA Design's #international projects, loves to use splashes of colour and #watercolour techniques to make the connection between #architecture and #landscape, and to illustrate how people use and enjoy spaces. He finds that sketching helps give a real sense of a place, making it come alive and with any imperfections only adding to the appeal and reflecting the imperfect #nature of life. Joyful work. #SketchFriday #painting #design #urbandesign #landscapearchitecture #architecture #placemaking #studioculture #employeeownership #inclusion #collaboration 

So, this week, we’ve had fun marking Lunar New Year. We’ve wished each other good health and happiness, celebrated the new moon, painted, feasted on delicious hot pots, and welcomed in the year of the snake 🐍. Thank you to all those who put the hard work into making these lovely things happen. We’d be lost without you. You make LDA Design a very special place to work. #LunarNewYear #ChineseNewYear #EmployeeOwnership #Inclusion #Collaboration #WorkingTogether #TeamWork #Bristol #Cambridge #Exeter #Glasgow #London #Manchester #Oxford #Peterborough

👀 What a first life approach is all about. Exciting to see the final stages of the transformation of Beresford Square and Powis Street in #Woolwich as planting goes in. Watch this space. We'll keep you in the know. Well done, team 👏 Royal Borough of Greenwich LDA Design - Cannon Ivers Naomi Rosser Tom McCreesh - Michael Grubb Studio Elite Landscapes Ltd Studio Bosk Ltd Robin Tacchi Plants Hadron Consulting (Project Management) Civic Engineers Marshalls plc Fountains Direct Ltd. #landscapearchitecture #landscapedesign #landscape #betterplaces #firstlife #design #placemaking

How wonderful is this?! 'Reflect' ready for action - a new pavilion created by the young #placemakers of Fitzrovia Youth in Action. It has been our privilege to work with these brilliant young designers, and MATT+FIONA, Integral Engineering Design, HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd and Mace to create a fun meanwhile #community green space, the National Temperance Hospital Garden, in freed up space near #Euston Station and with 'Reflect' the focal point. Hats off to everyone, including LDA Design's Dafydd Warburton and Manfredi Pedone, and M+F's Jonathan Shmulevitch but especially FYA's awesome #placemakers. #London #EustonStation #CommunityGardens #Meanwhile #HS2 #FitzroviaYouthinAction #FYA #GreenSpace #BetterCity #GreenCity #PlayfulCity

#Flood defences that will not only make #Southsea safer but also a better, more inviting and more playful place for local residents and visitors. This is flood protection and climate resilience as destination and #infrastructure that changes lives and benefits #nature. A whopping 12-pages on the transformation of Southsea seafront by Kimberley France for The Developer and Festival of Place and featuring an interview with LDA Design's Kirsty Barker. As Kirsty says, "It makes the years of hard work worthwhile when you finally see people using the spaces as we envisaged!" This is a massive project and we can't wait for more phases to complete. Well done to all the teams from Royal HaskoningDHV, LDA Design (Kirsty Barker Sophie Thompson Oliver Haring Dimitris Adamidis), Coastal Partners, VolkerStevin, Wessex Archaeology, Portsmouth City Council, Southsea Coastal Scheme and many more. #Portsmouth #SouthseaCoastal #FloodDefences #CoastalProtection #BetterSeaside #Placemaking #LandscapeDesign #LandscapeArchitecture #Infrastructure #ClimateAction #ClimateResilience