The Box, Plymouth
The Box, Plymouth Plymouth City Council exemplifies how strategic planning and meticulous execution can drive substantial urban enhancement while fostering meaningful community growth. In May 2014, Plymouth City Council secured a transformative £21 million funding grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. This substantial investment provided the foundation to modernise Devon’s historic coastal city while preserving […]
Swinton Square, Manchester
Swinton Square, Manchester Swinton Square, located in the heart of Manchester, was predominantly a concreted area suffering from urban decay, lack of green space, and a deteriorating environment. To address these challenges, a host of companies including Manchester City Council, Salford Council, Groundwork Greater Manchester, The Ignition Project, and Avison Young, as well as funding and […]
Southsea Seafront
Southsea Seafront As part of the £100m 8 year, Southsea Coastal Defence Plan, Portsmouth City Council developed the Seafront Masterplan in consultation with residents and stakeholders, which sets out a vision for the seafront, providing planning guidance and identifying areas for further enhancement and development opportunities, also highlighting elements of the seafront that should be […]
Fleet Valley Pocket Park
Fleet Valley Pocket Park Fleet Valley Pocket Park was designed as a full SuDS feature, to include tree pits for water storage. Completed in 2022, Fleet Valley Pocket Park is located above the historic path of the River Fleet, which once meandered through Camden from Hampstead Heath to the River Thames. Previously an underutilised space of […]
Floral Court, Covent Garden
Floral Court, Covent Garden In the heart of London, Floral Court in Covent Garden brings green urbanism to a new level. Creating a lush oasis of calm amidst some of the busiest shopping areas in the world was a complex task. The fact that listed buildings surrounded the square limited the designers KPF and Publica and forced them to […]
Elephant Park, Southwark
Elephant Park, Southwark Elephant and Castle, one of London’s fastest changing and modernised boroughs, with a master-planned revitalisation, budgeted at £2.5 billion, and a development framework approved by Southwark Council in 2004, this highly dense urban area has huge potential for creative spaces and green pockets of calmness. The client, Lendlease has introduced three thousand new sustainable homes together with […]
HyLo Finsbury Tower, Bunhill Row
HyLo Finsbury Tower, Bunhill Row GreenBlue Urban was proud to supply the full RootSpace ArborSystem for HyLo Finsbury Tower, designed by Horden Cherry Lee architects, with the landscape design led by Churchman Thornhill Finch. Finsbury Tower, built sixty years ago to the designs drawn up by the famous architect Richard Siebert, was dated and needed refurbishment. Built-in […]
iMET Alconbury Weald
iMET Alconbury Weald Most of our towns and cities have started as a collection of houses around a significant landscape feature such as a river crossing, a road junction or a pass-through hills. This by definition creates places that grow concentrically – at least to begin with. Any secondary landscape features happen where there is […]
City North building, Islington
City North building, Islington The Finsbury Park station has been in existence since 1861, although railway tracks ran through the area before this; the Great Northern Railway ran from London’s Kings Cross Station up the east of England to York and beyond to Edinburgh by 1862, and the new intermediate stations meant that large swathes […]
Bigg Market, Newcastle
Bigg Market, Newcastle The historical site of Bigg Market is situated in the Newcastle Upon Tyne district, within walking distance between the cathedral and town hall. Dating back to the Middle Ages, this thriving marketplace formed a hustling hub for communities. The marketplace adopted its iconic name from a type of coarse barley called Bigg that was sold […]