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Studio Dreitseitl (now Ramboll Studio Dreitseitl)
This 40 year old practise integrates natural systems with urban spaces, creating a vibrant public realm. Their aim is to create...
Annie Watson
Feb 13, 20231 min read
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RHS Tatton Park Long Border Competition
Collaborating as a team on a design project really brings out the strengths in everyone. We had some initial ideas about the overall...
Annie Watson
Feb 6, 20231 min read
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SWA Group
SWA is an international Landscape Architect, Planning & Urban Design practise with several studios in the US, Shanghai & UAE. Their...
Annie Watson
Feb 3, 20231 min read
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Sketchbook work week 3
I've been developing my concept for Alney Island, continuing with the idea of driftwood on a shoreline...Cleansing and Shoring up the...
Annie Watson
Feb 3, 20231 min read
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A Rather Depressing Article and even worse if you're a female...
Over-50s at work: 'You feel your usefulness has passed' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64441775 I've been assured by my tutors that...
Annie Watson
Jan 30, 20231 min read
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Alney Island Masterplan
Below is my concept masterplan for our Design 3 module, semester 1...
Annie Watson
Jan 25, 20231 min read
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Sketchbook work this week
We are starting to develop our concept for Design 3/ semester 2. A 1:500 design for a segment of Alney Island. I have been investigating...
Annie Watson
Jan 25, 20231 min read
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Macgregor Smith
For my next Landscape Architect Practise, I have focused on a practise local to me, in Bath. The company is just over 30 years old and...
Annie Watson
Jan 24, 20231 min read
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ARUP Design Group
Founded in 1946, by One Arup. Arup is a multi-national design company which provides Design, Engineering, Architecture, Planning and...
Annie Watson
Jan 24, 20231 min read
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The Art of Dry-stone Walling
A labour intensive, but sustainable and ancient method of creating a barrier. Dry-stone walling creates a habitat for nesting insects...
Annie Watson
Dec 15, 20221 min read
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Winter Beauty
There's always a dilemma about autumn/winter maintenance of perennials. In terms of wildlife, it's better to leave them and cut them back...
Annie Watson
Dec 15, 20221 min read
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Right Tree, Right Place
As part of my dissertation about Urban Forestry, my last section is looking at finding the most suitable tree for a specific situation....
Annie Watson
Dec 1, 20221 min read
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Stablising River Embankments
I've been looking out for examples of sustainable riverside stabilisation and found 2 good examples: Left - Pittville Park,...
Annie Watson
Nov 22, 20221 min read
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Valuing Rivers or the value of Rivers?
I was really angry/sad to read the article in the Independent newspaper "Anti-biotic resistant bacteria found in UK rivers close to...
Annie Watson
Nov 22, 20221 min read
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Ageing Trees
Trees felled at Stourhead - L= Beech/Fagus sylvatica R=Yew/Taxus bachata Photos: my own Having started the Habitat Survey, I started to...
Annie Watson
Nov 17, 20221 min read
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A beautiful wall...
I saw this beautiful flint wall to the South Downs National Park, just outside Winchester, an area well known for its decorative flint....
Annie Watson
Nov 17, 20221 min read
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Street Trees, for and against...
Photos:Left - Ischia, A Watson/Right - Singapore, A Watson Whilst researching and writing my undergraduate dissertation, I have come to...
Annie Watson
Nov 11, 20221 min read
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Changes in Glasgow
A bold step being made by Glasgow City Council: https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/glasgow-becomes-uks-first-feminist-city-as-town-plan...
Annie Watson
Nov 4, 20221 min read
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Annie Watson
Oct 21, 20220 min read
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Brick Art
I've realised I have a fascination for bricks, I think because they have a story to tell, especially the handmade and recycled ones!...
Annie Watson
Oct 21, 20221 min read
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