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Working in collaboration with Eric Parry Architects and Latz + Partner, LUC was selected by Saxon Generali Real Estate to design a roof garden at One Fen Court, a new 17-storey mixed-use development at the heart of the City cluster in the City of London.
LUC’s services included planting design, pre-selection and specification, planning and inspection to deliver the soft landscape for the building’s 2,200m2 rooftop terrace. The garden, which is fully accessible to the public, sits 65m above street level and offers 360o views across London’s skyline.
The roof garden is designed to include all the best aspects of a public space whilst integrating building services and energy efficiency requirements. It provides a refreshingly tranquil escape from the dense City cluster and streets below. Our scheme sensitively combines seasonal herbaceous planting with exposure-tolerant and evergreen grasses, vines and espalier fruit. Its centrepiece is a grove of 88 wisteria supported on a pergola, providing shade, scent and shelter to the roof terrace.
As the visitor moves around the garden the quality of light changes with the aspect and the time of day and season. Moving water on the southern edge of the roof provides relief during warm spells.
“It’s gone beyond our expectations, simply because it has a wow factor that we were hoping for but we didn’t dare dream of.” Tina Paillet, Senior Executive at Generali Real Estate
LUC is the masterplanner and landscape architect responsible for this new hospital outside Enniskillen. This is an immensely complex project, integrating extensive development into a sensitive context with environmental impacts minimised.
LUC worked closely with team members and the client brief to produce the site masterplan and detailed landscape proposals. This process involves incorporating the numerous and complex needs of a hospital; ensuring site legibility for patients, visitors and staff; addressing therapeutic and environmental considerations within this area of natural beauty and a tight planning framework.
The quantity of design information required by the Hospital Trust was unprecedented, including design to RIBA Stage E, full detailed planning application and EIA. The enormously complex functional and spatial interdependencies of a hospital extend to the site plan (circulation, parking, security, drainage, landscape, approach road and ecology were all part of LUC’s remit). Ground conditions on site are very poor, requiring complex remediation and full integration between civil and landscape design.
Closer to the building, LUC is responsible for the design of the 400m long Linear Gardens — a birch woodland which forms the spine of the hospital. The project also involves the ‘re-wetting’ of wetlands using all surface water run-off from roofs and hard surfaces filtered through a series of pools before discharge into an adjacent lake. Other sustainable solutions include the extensive use of locally grown local flora, the use of local natural hard materials, the creation of extensive species rich meadows, integrated arts such as land art and living willow sculpture and the intended involvement of the local community as part of an educational outreach programme.
The resultant site plan was a masterpiece in binding these potentially disparate elements into workable and attractive environment.
The scheme was completed on time and to budget and opened by HRH The Queen in July 2012. It has proved immensely successful with the NHS, staff, patients and visitors.
The RIBA President has described it as a benchmark for european hospitals.
For more information, visit: www.landuse.co.uk
LUC worked as lead consultants and landscape architects through the detailed design and implementation stages of the restoration of Bushey Rose Garden. It was designed by Thomas Mawson in 1912 for Sir Hubert von Herkomer, a successful Victorian artist, and was originally part of the garden of Lululaund, Herkomer’s house.
Detailed investigations allowed a comprehensive historically accurate restoration that included the refurbishment of the Rose Temple, original tufa stone fountain, the pergola, Grade II listed Summer house, and original brick paving.
Bespoke restoration commissions include benches copied from Mawson’s designs, Rose pillars and a bronze plaque which was replicated from historic photographs, the original having been stolen in 1967. The Cloister, which was part of Herkomers Art School has been reconfigured into a performance space.
Additions to the garden include the Potting Shed, a gardener’s store and facilities, a small yard, new gates and railings and new paths.
The project was opened to much acclaim with David Mawson, one of Thomas Mawson’s grandsons in attendance.
Bushey Rose Garden is open all year round with free admission and thousands of visitors have enjoyed the garden since it reopened in July 2010.
For more information, visit: www.landuse.co.uk
A completed stone fireplace project by Landscape Aesthetics a professional New Jersey Landscape design company servicing New Jersey. For more photos visit them online at: www.landscapeaesthetics.com
Probably the best photo in terms of distilling the Guadalupe River Park by Hargreaves Associates. The trees march along as a datum, and the ground shifts against them. Here we see how the grasses kiss the sunlight, emphasizing each layer of the constructed topography. Again, massive, but delicate.
A gate around a rose garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Sculptures on the top half of the round entry gate by Chihuly.
LEED Platinum 5-plex community: Full design plan, multiple rain gardens, stepping stone pathways, plant installation.
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These photos show the construction of the garden using vertical round timber poles set in concrete to create the visible retaining walls. Sleepers provided the steps and hidden retaining walls. A significant repair tothe existing fence had to be done as the tree surgeons who initially installed the fence really did not have a clue how to build a fence! Tree stumps were also a factor as the garden had several trees removed prior to this work being carried out. The design for the garden was done by www.postalgardendesign.co.uk and the build was carried out by www.wyldlandscapes.co.uk.
Walled garden with small pond and perennial plantings for house that sits on a northern Pennsylvania lake.
Our client was a young professional with a love of painting and open spaces. She bought the property a couple of years earlier and had just finished working on the interior - now it was time to tackle the overgrown garden.
The brief was simple - create something with lots of colour and a pond.
We played around with various concepts and finally settled on the one shown above.
There were only two plants worth keeping in the entire garden, a Prunus lusitanica tree and a Fatsia japonica shrub. As they were quite big and established their chance of survival if dug up and moved would have been pretty low so we designed the garden around them.
The finished garden would include a patio, a lawn with stepping-stones, a deck floating over a large pond and a raised metal walkway above plants and water.
The planting would be colourful and have a tropical feel, including tree ferns and giant Agapanthus.
Work started on clearing the garden and the first thing to be tackled was the mass of ivy covering the right hand side fence. It was dense and surprisingly heavy but still no match for our shears and saws.
A couple of hours later and it was nearly all down and time to start bagging up the rubbish ready for disposal the next morning.
At the end of day 1 the garden was totally cleared and ready for the new layout to be marked out on the ground with pink string.
Now that there was nothing left in the garden it felt twice as big and when the client arrived home she couldn't believe how much space she really had.
Over the following few days lots of digging took place, the hardest of which was at the bottom of the garden for the new pond. The earth in this area hadn't been touched for many years and was rock solid. Although the deck appears to float over the pond it merely overhangs it by 20cm, this means that the pond is really an 'L' shape. To get a nice straight edge that would not crumble with the force of the water pushing against it we made up a shuttering system and back filled it with concrete. Legs for the deck to bolt to were set within the concrete before it set, making the frame rock solid.
The garden fell by half a metre from the house to the rear wall so we carried out levelling works to build the garden on three levels. The patio would be the highest, the lawn and stepping-stone the middle and the pond would be the lowest.
A wooden sleeper wall divided the middle and lower levels. The deck was built to be perfectly level with the lawn an top of the sleeper wall, attached to both was a walkway made from recycled metal grills that sat on a timber frame 30cm above the planting. The grills allow you to walk through and above the planting on the way to the deck, finally passing over the pond. Lighting was installed under the grills and at night it gives a really magical effect to the whole area.
Timber edging was used to shutter off the path area so that the base could be laid and compacted without mixing in with the soil.
The sleeper wall is held in place with long bolts attached to posts at the back. The posts are concreted deep into the ground to make sure they don't move.
Grey sawn sandstone paving was used for the path and a step was added to make it easier to walk between the levels.
The pond is 2ft deep and has a pump and filter system that runs 24 hours a day, all year. This keeps the water nice and clean and has allowed the client to stock the pond with a dozen or so large fish. Aquatic plants have been added to create a more natural environment and give the fish places to hide.
The pond liner is capped with a heavy black metal edging that not only protects it but also gives the pond a nice crisp finish.
When full, the water level sits 2cm below the bottom of the deck - hence the floating effect.
The timber frame supporting the metal grill walkway was painted black and a hardwood trim to match the deck was added around the edges. This trim holds the grills in place and just adds a nice finishing touch.
It was then time to bring in some really good new topsoil and compost. The compost was added to the planting beds and the topsoil was added to the new lawn area. After raking the soil over and removing any final bumps and lump it was time to start laying the lawn.
The plants that were used in this garden included:
Perennials:
Agapanthus 'Headbourne Hybrids'
Agapanthus umberllatus 'Ovatus'
Crocosmia masoniorum
Crocosmia ‘Limpopo’
Echinacea purp.'Magnus'
Euphorbia robbiae
Heuchera 'Chocolate Ruffles'
Heuchera 'Obsidian'
Hosta sieboldiana
Hosta undulata Albomarginata’
Iris ‘Jane Phillips’
Kniphofia 'Alcazar'
Lilium philipinense
Liriope muscari 'Big Blue'
Lobelia fulgens 'Queen Victoria'
Nepeta ‘Walkers Low’
Penstemon 'King George'
Penstemon 'Sour Grapes'
Pennisetum villosum
Shrubs and climbers:
Cornus Kousa
Cordyline dazzler
Phormium 'Pink Panther'
Phormium tenax variegata
Rhus typhina 'Dissecta'
Photinia ‘Red Robin’
Trachelospermum jasminoides
Ferns:
Dryopteris erythrosora
Dryopteris filix-mas
Dicksonia antarctica
Grasses:
Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron'
Miscanthus sin. 'Ferner Osten'
Miscanthus sin. 'Sirene'
Molinia caer. 'Heidebraut'
What the client had to say: "Fork's garden design and project management ability was fantastic. The service was great - they were really flexible, taking the practical elements that were important to me into account, while also offering really creative and innovative ideas to give the garden a 'wow factor'. They were absolute perfectionists when it came to the building aspects, while also working very quickly. They've completely transformed the garden; I feel like I'm on holiday when I'm in it! It also looks so much bigger now, and has even made an impact on my flat by letting more light in and making my home overall feel more spacious and bright. I'm thrilled with the results! "
More examples of Fork's work can be seen at www.forkgardendesign.com