4. Broadwater Park

5 October 2021 [Regrettably for copyright reasons this video recording is not available for public viewing]

The landscape setting, designed by Preben Jakobsen in the early 1980s, was for offices and a distribution warehouse for the National Water Council. Involved from the outset, Jakobsen was able to influence managing the contaminated land. The design includes an earthwork terrace framed by a circular hedge, a secret garden for the staff and car parking. Jakobsen developed a niche role designing high quality and distinctive landscapes for commercial companies, and a number of these projects were with Bill Pack of EPR. Karen Fitzsimon will explain this project, his considered selection and style of planting and how this project fits into Jakobsen’s oeuvre.

Karen Fitzsimon is a landscape architect, garden historian and horticulturalist.  She co-curated the 2017 Gardens Trust symposium on post war designed landscapes, ‘Overlooked, Undervalued and At Risk?’  resulting in the 20+ sites added to the HE register. She is currently undertaking doctoral research at University of Westminster on the landscape practice of Preben Jakobsen.