Planet Earth
Sustainability can be a hard concept to explain and interestingly one of the best talks I have heard wasn’t by a sustainability professional but by the physicist Professor Brain Cox. He spoke at Ecobuild 2011 and used the ideas from Carl Sagan’s book...
Shake the Disease
It isn’t often that environmental issues make it into the news or prompt a meeting of the UK Government’s COBR crisis committee. The gradual decline of a rare species may worry environmentalists but it sadly doesn’t make for dramatic headlines....
I Want to be a Landscape Architect
I love this little video explaining our profession. Some other great examples on the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) site The professional body for the UK is the Landscape Institute
It’s A Mystery – My Top 3 Landscape Myths
All professionals have myths that they have to regularly counter and in my work as a landscape architect I regularly come across a number that persist. I’ve drawn up my top three but there are many more! Myth #1 – All Trees Have Tap Roots Truth –...About Me
My name is Claire Thirlwall and I’m a chartered landscape architect. I run Thirlwall Associates, a landscape architecture consultancy based in Oxfordshire.
I work with architects, engineers, planners, project managers and other construction professionals. I also work as a sub-consultant to other landscape architects.