Princess Diana Memorial

Gross. Max. is an Edinburgh based practice of Landscape Architects. The founding members of Gross. Max., Bridget Baines and Eelco Hooftman, have gained a wide range of professional experience in both the public and private sector. Their individual work has included designs for public parks, civic squares, housing schemes, land reclamation, structure plans and regional studies. Gross. Max.'s first collaborative work in 1996 was an award winning scheme for two parks at Potsdammer Platz in Berlin, soon followed by a winning entry for the landscape masterplan for Hannover Expo 2000. Since the completion of Whiteinch Square as part of Glasgow “99 City of Architecture and Design and the first prize in the RIBA competition for Hackney Town Hall Square the practice has been recognised for its contextual approach with a contemporary idiom towards urban space. Recently Gross. Max. won two other competitions for public squares in London and was invited to participate in Architecture International Rotterdam as part of Rotterdam 2001 Cultural Capital of Europe. Gross. Max.'s strong affinity with art has resulted in a range of collaborations with artists and the practice has recently won three Royal Society of the Arts “Art for Architecture” Awards. Work by Gross. Max. has been published in a wide range of international magazines and book publications. Nigel Sampey, former landscape architect of Rotterdam based West 8, recently joined Gross. Max. as a partner. At present Gross. Max. is spreading its wings with projects in Leipzig Germany (BMW factory in collaboration with Zaha Hadid) and Colombo Sri Lanka (British High Commission).

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Paddington Basin > Never been here before and didn't even know it existed. I should really get out more because I can get so many idea's and inspiration from coming to places like this.



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More London" few images i took of this space between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. Clean, crisp, modern urban environment. Nice!

For part of my First sights module at Kingston we went on a few field trips. The first of which was to"Innovations for the Built Environment". The most relevant aspect to us was Cityscape. An exhibition for the urban development and the management and maintenane of the public realm. Was quite interesting as we spoke to number of people in the construction idustry who were moe thatn happy to have a chat.

On the same day as the trip to Earls Court visited the London Wetland Centre which, for me was quite helpful as the project that we were currently working on involved me creating a wetland. Quite a cool place, shame the weather was awful. Got some pics though.

A place to record my findings during my time at Kingston University.

The plastic tree in more London. More London is a 13-acre business estate between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. The overall is by Foster and Partners.The architecture is sleek but does little to define and create good urban landscape.