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03.09.2022

BD welcomes Lizzie

03.09.2022

BD are delighted to welcome Lizzie Rimmer to the team as talented Graduate Landscape Architect

Lizzie has joined on her year out in practice from University of Gloucestershire where she received a 1st Class Honours for her undergraduate degree.

Lizzie enjoys sustainable, user-focused design and is interested in the relationship between people and place.

Her final year project explored the implementation of educational wetlands in the urban realm and her undergraduate dissertation considered the applications of urban farming techniques in a changing climate.

She is particularly interested in how these techniques can be delivered through landscape design and how people connect with productive landscapes.

01.08.2022

BD welcomes Juliette

01.08.2022

BD are delighted to welcome Juliette Grondin to the team as talented Landscape Architect

Juliette graduated from the National School of Landscape Architecture of Versailles in France before spending time at Agence Laure Planchais in Paris, prior to joining BD in August 2022.

Juliette has been involved on several public and private realm urban project including the Donville town hall public realm + garden spaces. Her most recent experience includes a competition on the development of a new neighbourhood development, including the creation of park, new housing, and multi-activities spaces, in a retro-coastal area with a focus on a high rising sea level resilient design.

Her final year project at the National School of Landscape Architecture of Versailles was focussed on dealing with current climatic and social issues specifically design approaches to improve a river condition to constitute a unifying link in for the territory that shapes living spaces.

Juliette appreciates meaningful and sensitive designs, that can reveal site particularities while responding to more technical issues. She enjoys landscape architecture project with tangible human scale to be able to touch people in their environment.

23.06.2022

Lovedon Fields wins a national RIBA award

23.06.2022

Amazing news that Lovedon Fields has won a national RIBA award.

A brilliant collaboration over a number of years with John Pardey Architects for HAB housing alongside engineers Clarke Bond, Peach Ecology + many others.

It’s great to see the growing community taking ownership beautifully observed by JimStephenson and we are delighted that the project has been selected as one of 29 national award winners in 2022.

The jury says:

“Lovedon Fields was part of the client’s broader objective to achieve a step-change in the design quality that is expected of and delivered by rural housing developments and in the hard-nosed commercial context of mass housing, it is no mean feat to have achieved as much as it has.”

13.06.2022

BD welcomes Nikki

13.06.2022

Nikki joined BD after completing her degree at the University of Edinburgh and time as a landscape architect with Kinnear Landscape Architects + J&L Gibbons where she gained valuable experience working on a range of forward thinking innovative landscape design + public realm projects.

Nikki’s most recent experience includes an ecological framework strategy for Victoria, graphic and technical work for British Library’s new archive in Boston Spa, and a competition for a play area with a focus on environmental education.

Her graduate project at ECA enlivens the highly standardised neighbourhood park typology by focusing on tangible uses, and ecology rooted in context.

Nikki enjoys design made meaningful by research and collaboration with communities. She is particularly interested in the role physical environments play in the lives of children and youth, and the power of landscape to facilitate healthy social, cognitive and physical development.

Welcome to the team Nikki!

04.04.2022

New website!

04.04.2022

Huge thanks to Jonny at Passport and Josh at Outpost for helping us develop a new website that better responds to how we approach sustainable landscape design in this climate emergency to create amazing + resilient place for people.

12.11.2021

Design Council Expert

12.11.2021

We are delighted to announce that our founder & director Rob has been appointed as a Design Council Expert alongside an amazing + diverse group of collaborators across the built environment – looking to make life better by design.

29.09.2020

Fidelity International

29.09.2020

We are pleased that the Heart Zone, Pavilion and MSCP phases of the masterplan at Fidelity International’s Kingswood Fields Campus received consent and are progressing to technical design.

We have been collaborating with HLW Architects and Planology since 2018 to design + deliver beautiful, biodiverse and sociable spaces to contribute towards a valuable and cherished work place setting.

29.09.2020

University of Oxford – Beecroft

29.09.2020

We love this 60 seconds of beauty & calm from our recently completed quad at the Beecroft Building for the University of Oxford. Filmed by Jim Stephenson in collaboration with BD and HawkinsBrown this captures perfectly the reflective space off Parks Road >

02.02.2020

Clifton Village Planning

02.02.2020

We are pleased that Bristol City Council granted planning permission for a major mixed-use retail, café/restaurant and office development in Clifton Village that we have been working on with THAT Group and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios since 2016.

This landmark project will increase urban tree planting and biodiversity, create a high quality public realm surrounding the building on all 4 sides and deliver a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ scheme in this sensitive Conservation Area.

02.02.2020

The Meadow Opens!

02.02.2020

We are delighted that the Meadow at Elephant Park is now open.

This playful landscape led project for a meanwhile space aims to educate and engage users on the importance of our urban pollinators.

Developed in collaboration for Lendlease with Michael Grubb Studios, and Tom Hare the pocket park uses site-reclaimed timber and tilted landform to create a playful wildflower tapestry with life-size willow woven elephant and towering tulips.

02.02.2020

Landscape Institute Awards

02.02.2020

We were honoured to be finalists with Pocket Living at the 2019 Landscape Institute Awards and humbled to be in the presence of Sir David Attenborough.

A number of the team managed to speak with the living legend and hear first-hand his words ‘you have a great responsibility to bring the realities of the natural world to the understanding and the love of human beings worldwide’.

23.09.2019

Emma promoted to Associate

23.09.2019

We are delighted to announce that Emma Gibson has been promoted to Associate Landscape Architect.

‘I am delighted to be promoted to Associate + the opportunity it gives me to contribute to the future, and direction, of the practice.

Being a part of the BD for the past 6 years I have enjoyed seeing the progress of both the company and my colleagues around me. I look forward to the building on the success of the new London Office and hope I can continue to add value to the BD team in my new position.’

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