Landscape architect David Allen reviews the design history of Harlow and Harlow's Town Park, using contemporary photos, plans and drawings, and discusses more recent challenges and changes confronting the park.The Town Park forms the north edge of...

Milton Keynes (MK) was a greenfield New Town designed around the car and as a city of trees, and its masterplan was approved in 1969. Landscape architect Neil Higson joined the MK Development Corporation (1977) and brought together the team of landscape...

Landscape Architect Bernard Ede introduces this land reclamation and development project in London’s green belt on a former historic landscape, subsequently exploited for gravel and backfilled with domestic waste. Although previously capped with clay...

Why so Special? Insights into 21 iconic post war designed and listed landscapes and gardensBroadwater Park5 October 2021The landscape setting, designed by Preben Jakobsen in the early 1980s, was for offices and a distribution warehouse for the National...

Cummins’ first overseas diesel engine factory was opened in Shotts, Scotland, (1956). To expand into the European market, a second factory for components was built at Darlington (1964-65). Cummins were already established patrons of modern art and...

Geoffrey Jellicoe, one of the heroes of landscape architecture in UK, was commissioned to design the landscape for this new factory (opened 1954). Although he found the site 'diabolical' in terms of wind, drainage and soils, he produced a masterplan...

Landscape architect, Neil Davidson of J&L Gibbons describes Neave Brown’s architecture for this scheme as ‘a piece of the city’, designed for mixed uses, and how he thought of the buildings as landscapes. The topography Neave Brown designed for...

Brunel Estate landscape (completed 1973-74) was designed by architect and landscape architect Michael Brown. One of Michael Brown’s employees - landscape architect Colin Moore - visited Brunel Estate several times during the construction phase of the...

The City of London Corporation held a competition in 1951 for the design of a housing estate for London's key workers. It was for a bomb site surrounded by flattened buildings and a mountain of debris. Architectural historian Elain Harwood explains how...

Churchill Garden Estate with its significant extent of open space and landscape setting for the estate’s buildings, was one of the key sites in the Gardens Trust’s campaign to save surviving mid twentieth century gardens of interest from being...

Architectural historian Elain Harwood outlines the development and designs of these two public housing estates.Portsmouth Road (now Alton East) and Roehampton Lane (Alton West) were the best sites left within the old county of London for post-war...

A People's Arcadia: The Ian Hamilton Finlay Garden at Luton11 January 2022 The IHF garden at Stockwood, commissioned and funded by the local council, is...

Ed Bennis, former head of the landscape school at Manchester Metropolitan University, talks about architect, planner and landscape architect, Peter Shepheard and his life and work and his design for this garden, in association with his assistant...

The stone plinth, steps and two seats were listed almost 25 years ahead of when the landscape this memorial sits in was added to the Historic England register. Is there a design more closely integrated with its landscape than this site? Digging in...

Public and Semi-Public Gardens. Arne Jacobsen and the 'Total Design’ of St Catherine’s College, Oxford1 February 2022. Having written books on the gardens of...

Jan Woudstra and James StrideSpan, Eric Lyons, Ivor Cunningham, Michael Brown, Preben Jakobsen; development and spread of 20C housing layouts in EuropeWhen a group of young, well-informed and idealistic architect-designers and developers founded Span...

Designed by architect and landscape architect Philip HicksLandscape architect Dominic Cole, Dr Jan Woudstra and landscape architect Cristina Refolo discuss Philip Hicks, his work and the discovery of new archival material on this garden; the beauty and...

David Ward, garden and nursery director at Beth Chatto Gardens discusses the origins and evolution of the garden and nursery and how this is influencing its future development.Naturalist, Dr Chris Gibson observes that Beth Chatto's mantra Right Plant...

Landscape architect and garden designer John Brookes established his home, office and design school at Denmans (1980-2018), with the garden functioning also as an experimental plot.Garden and landscape historian Dr Barbara Simms outlines the history...

A small private garden developed (1951-1980s) by the Spencer family as a series of garden rooms in an Arts and Crafts style. The garden is unusual in being vested in a charity and open to the public.Head gardener Ben Preston has an interest in historic...