Landscape design//

Selected current and past projects. Where created whilst working at previous practices, credit is provided.

Sugar House Island, Stratford, London.

This is a 10 hectare mixed use site in Stratford formally knows as Strand East. It is a ground-breaking redevelopment, bringing a historic, near-derelict site back to life as an energy efficient and creatively designed new urban quarter adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

In many ways it is a project that had early landscape-led themes including a deliberate manipulating of levels across the site that the architects would have to respond to inventively and with character.

This was a key project for me and I was very involved as a project landscape architect from the concept stage to the first phases (Danes Yard and Botanical Mews) being completed in 2020. I have since been involved in some Placemaking features with Vastint and the artist-in-residence Rachel Wyld.

Aire Park, Leeds.

A 8.5-hectare site within the South Bank regeneration area. At the heart of the proposal sits a 3.5 ha new city park that will open up the South Bank and provide key routes through the city. This first phase will deliver over 2 ha of the park, surrounded by up to 850 homes and active uses including retail, cultural, educational, leisure and health. I was thrilled to be a key member of the team on this new city park for the people of Leeds and was responsible for key design elements, coordination and day to day running of the project until in gained planning approval in the summer of 2020.

Keybridge House, Vauxhall, London.

The project provides 415 new homes, a 2-form entry primary school, office space and retail units within the wider ‘Nine Elms’ regeneration scheme. Reawakening senses dulled by modern city life, a rich series of pocket parks, gardens, public squares and private courtyards interlink to form an urban haven. The design entwines strands of water, planting, light, materials and air to create a verdant external environment.

Royal Eden Docks, London.

This residential development of 800 new homes provides a new publicly accessible and playable streetscape, two large courtyard spaces, an arrival plaza and rooftop amenity.

As well as leading this project I had a strong hand in its concept and created ‘The Garden Circle’, a strong, simple and quite unique design that created a slightly elevated circular walkway. This walkway leads people on a journey through an undulating landscape of dense planting, tight groups of trees and open meadow areas. At its heart, a central green space allows for relaxed family and play use, whilst sensory play trails weave through the trees and planting. Loose planting of native pioneering trees and grasses provide a suggestion of the area’s history as former marshland.

Albany Riverside, Brentford, London.

A high-end residential development of 193 homes and a cost of £65 million on the River Thames forming a gateway to Brentford High Street in West London. The design has an important interface with the Thames and views across Lot’s Ait and into Kew Gardens.

The design response had a very naturalistic character to it that reflected the ebb and flow of the river.

Lion Green Road, Couldson, London.

Working directly with Mary Duggan Architects in support of this residential ‘Brick by Brick’ scheme in Croydon delivering 120 new homes.

It is a landscape led scheme with a series of verdant interventions, drawing upon the site’s natural landscape assets with a materiality strategy that incorporated existing site materials into the proposed scheme.

This project was approved by Croydon in 2018.

Deanston Wharf, Royal Wharf, London.

Deanston Wharf contains containing 769 residential units and lies to the edge of the Thames and adjacent to Lyle Park in Silvertown and forms part of the larger Royal Wharf Scheme.

The landscape consists of two sizable courtyard spaces overlooking the park and a further 200m long stepped park with an arboretum, meadows, winding paths and play interventions.

This project was approved by London Borough of Newham in 2018 and was at Stage 4 in late 2020.

Branch Hill House, Hampstead, London.

A sensitively designed series of gardens with a response to challenging levels, site designations and an historic building with a complementary new residential extension. The planting theme was inspired by great plantswoman Gertrude Jekyll and was considered fitting for the context of the building and its setting in Hampstead.

Glasshouse Gardens, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London.

The design for Glasshouse Gardens reflects significant consultation with the client and users. It responds to feedback that the place should be open, not ​‘gated’ and includes a new community open space, called The Spark.

The local council wanted a multi-use games area for the site, and we designed a tech-enabled ​‘host space’ that functions for sports and other types of events, with an amphitheatre, wi-fi and pop up screens. These accessible, multifunctional spaces accommodate a full program of events, activities and play.

Ontario Tower & Raddisson Hotel Gardens, New Providence Wharf, London.

The design and delivery is an exemplar of urban space development in terms of biodiversity, sustainability and public access. The landscape was derived from the ‘eyot’ or islands found upstream in the River Thames which are laid out to form a ‘delta’ of paths leading down to the Thames. The ‘eyots’ form small gardens, some planted simply others providing a more seasonal range of flowers and textures.

Projects abroad

Mezyad Desert Park, Abu Dhabi.

The aim of the new park was to restore and preserve the flora, fauna, archaeology, geology, and natural environment of the area which is measures 4000 hectares, whilst attracting visitors to the site to learn and engage with the landscape. Our role was to document, restore, and preserve the rich environment and to promote and communicate the significance of its heritage through architecture and landscape design.

Morocco Mall, Casablanca.

A large exposed 40,000m2 site sitting adjacent to the Atlantic provided challenges with its windy and marine environment. An undulating park was designed with an intersecting ribbon path and the use of large local trees and vegetation provided immediate maturity and shelter. This is a project that I led from concept design through to completion with regular site visits. The interactive and musical water feature was designed by WET.