A Design for Life

In response to ...  https://www.dezeen.com/2019/11/06/golden-lane-estate-playground-london-muf/ Children have such uninhibited imaginations and so creating urban playgrounds like the one pictured, albeit with very few features from nature, will inspire and promote healthy development through play. A tilted area and aluminium frame will quickly morph into the lair of a tiger or creek full of spiralling crocodiles for these children.  I love the following thoughts written on the Studio Dreiseitl website surrounding the  Jurong Lake Gardens in Singapore.  Nature Play at Forest Ramble -  Children can play to their hearts’ content at Forest Ramble, which is a nature-inspired 2.3-hectare playground with 13 different adventure stations that encourage kids to mimic the actions and motions of the animals that inhabit the freshwater swamp habitat. Butterfly Swing Separated into a swings area and hammock area, the Butterfly Swing lets children of different age gr...

Who does not love the magical welcome of an archway?  This has to be a special home to earn such a beautiful green guard of honour. Always think big. Many towns in America have a Welcome Archway to invite visitors in. Foliage Buttocks

Oh the potential! With a leap of the imagination this could be transformed into a fabulous dwelling.  I see a rustic, white washed Tuscan farmhouse with basking, sweet geraniums dancing majestically up the steps.

 I love the fabulous terracotta tiles ...

  My visual depiction of the influence a Landscape Architect can have, especially within the current pandemic. I feel grateful to live close to multiple spacious green parks.  Inspired by a Metropolis article discussing what is next for Landscape Architecture following the pandemic.  https://www.metropolismag.com/architecture/landscape/covid-19-landscape-architecture/ What has the pandemic taught us? Aside from the fragility of life and how much we take for granted, what matters to us most?  I think we can all agree that it is being in the regular company of others. Community. We thrive in our tribes. It is how we have evolved to live the lives we would choose, under normal circumstances. During this unprecedented experience, of us living with such stringent restrictions on our freedom, arguably it is the contact of others we crave the most.  Using these observations, moving forward as designers, the forefront of our considerations must surely now be focused o...

  Paradox      Boldness    Curiosity

Artist - Fabian Perez, Tanya Ling, El Lissitzky, Henrique Oliveira Graphic Designer - Milton Glaser Fashion Designer - Madeleine Vionnet Photographer - Roger Ballen (spoookily brilliant work- mentally unsettled does not equal freak) Garden Designer - Beth Chatto Landscape Architect - Kathryn Gustafson Inventor - Alison Davies --- Architect - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Engineer - Nikola Tesla Sweet - liquorice/ vimpto lollie (I prefer chocolate, I enjoy lollipops) Musician/ band - Cesaria Evora for salsa Scientist - Dorothy Hodgkin Film Director - Roman Polanski Author - John Roughley Pasta shape - Tagliatelle/ farfalle   Horticulturist - Russel Page Smell - mother and honeysuckle  Sound - silence, warm wind and my beautiful family  Taste - truffle cream of mushroom and love! The satisfaction of working everyday towards being my best self and being kind  Plant/ flower - lily and anything yellow Material - silk Texture - flat and cracked wall beneath feet, water, th...

In response to ...  https://www.ted.com/talks/pam_warhurst_how_we_can_eat_our_landscapes Coming from the red rose county of Lancashire and having an ingrained awareness of the competition with them lot 'thuther side ot Pennines, in the white rose county of Yorkshire, I have to hand it to them, they will make a rose garden bloom anywhere.  Todmorden is beautiful!  Made me think of Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers and fish. A feast for the eyes.