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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


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


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


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


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


Alney Island Masterplan
Below is my concept masterplan for our Design 3 module, semester 1...
Annie Watson
Jan 25, 20231 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Annie Watson
Oct 21, 20220 min read


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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