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What’s new in the world of garden design Compiled by Zia Allaway
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LDA DESIGN WINS SGDSPONSORED LI AWARD CAROLYN WILLITTS MSGD was among the panel of Landscape Institute Award judges who selected LDA Design’s Sighthill Regeneration Masterplan as the winner of the SGD-sponsored Excellence in Landscape Construction award. The plan (pictured below) is for a new neighbourhood on a former industrial site in Glasgow, with 850 new homes, parkland, and lochans, burns and wetlands to provide flood protection and boost biodiversity. The Landscape Institute’s top prize, the President’s Award, was won by Guangzhou Urban Planning & Design Survey Research Institute for the Guangzhou Ecological Belt Masterplan and Implementation. The project restores the ecology of the waterfront in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, which was threatened by pollution. The design also won The Dame Sylvia Crowe International Award. For a list of all LI award-winners, visit awards.landscapeinstitute.org
local residents and visitors. The Estate now comprises 26 acres of public realm, which includes a number of green spaces designed by Dan Pearson MSGD in the squares and along Regent’s Canal. Hanif Kara, representing the Aga Khan Development Network which, together with property developer Argent, commissioned the garden, commented: ‘Through the green spaces – six in the Aga Khan Centre, two in nearby Victoria Hall, the fountains in Lewis Cubitt Square, and now Jellicoe Gardens – visitors to King’s Cross can gain new insights about the diversity of Islamic landscape design originating from different geographic regions and see their contributions to garden design around the world.’ Tom Stuart-Smith worked in association with Townshend Landscape Architects, the masterplan landscape architects for King’s Cross, who delivered the paving and pathways within the garden and their integration with the wider public realm. kingscross.co.uk; tomstuartsmith.co.uk.
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A NEW GARDEN that celebrates Persian landscape traditions and English garden-style planting has opened in the heart of London’s King’s Cross. Designed by landscape designer Tom Stuart-Smith MSGD, the garden pays tribute to the late Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900–96), founding member of the Landscape Institute, and was opened by his nephew, Michael Pares (pictured above right, with the garden designer). Jellicoe was renowned for his waterthemed designs such as those at Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire and Shute House in Wiltshire, and his ideas and those featured in the 16th-century Bagh-e Fin, a traditional Persian garden in Iran, are a central feature of Tom’s design. Situated between the Aga Khan Centre – itself home to six gardens, terraces and courtyards inspired by different parts of the Islamic world – and the residential developments Luma and Fenman House, the Jellicoe Gardens are a significant new public space within the northern part of the King’s Cross Estate and provide a tranquil oasis for
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TOM STUART-SMITH’S JELLICOE GARDENS OPEN IN KING’S CROSS
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