by Claire Thirlwall | 19 August 2016 | Landscape Architecture
I love the Olympics. Every four years I watch the eccentric Opening Ceremony, the hard to follow sports, (omnium – you are the main culprit here) and the tearful medal ceremonies. Watching athletes, the best in the world, is a privilege. I was lucky...
by Claire Thirlwall | 19 July 2016 | Landscape Architecture
I’m in celebratory mood today, as twenty years ago I set up my practice Thirlwall Associates. Back in 1996 Facebook, Twitter and Google were yet to exist. I was proud of my dial-up connection, choosing between using the phone or the internet. I had my pick of...
by Claire Thirlwall | 4 June 2013 | Landscape Architecture
As I caught my first glimpse of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from the window of the DLR from Stratford it was hard to imagine the immaculate park I’d last seen last summer. On 28th July 2013, the first day of competition at the London 2012 Olympic...
by Claire Thirlwall | 26 March 2013 | Landscape Architecture, River restoration
I love this beautiful and thought provoking film about river restoration by Canadian charity Central Westcoast Forest Society based on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. They really seem to have understood the complex mix of ecological and cultural issues tied up...
by Claire Thirlwall | 6 November 2012 | Landscape Architecture
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....
by Claire Thirlwall | 5 October 2011 | Landscape Architecture
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