HargreavesJones
I think that HargreavesJones has created many innovative and inspirational designs that have influenced millions.
The home page is bright, the changing slides of their work shows the vast range of projects they have completed and how successful they have been. Their website is inviting and easy to navigate, and straight away shows the scale and type of work they do, its large scale and most commonly public realm work.
There projects are all so different
and characterised to place specific detail, I found so much inspiration within
there projects. There is manipulation of topography and the creation of rolling
hills on what once was such a flat landscape brings interest and an informal feel
to their designs. Most of their projects have a flow throughout the site, the
paths have this natural form that sweeps through joining planters that then
meander through carefully sculped hills. This is something that really inspires
me as a Landscape architect, designs that fit so seamlessly into nature. They
have created individual spaces so well within a whole scheme that lead you through
their design, telling a story, and creating different emotional responses.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London,
United Kingdom was one of their designs that really impacted me. Being a river
side design, they really used it to their advantage, you can see the flow
through the form of their design. I was really inspired by the change in
topography, and how this landscape felt layered. I loved the refugee points,
under trees, on the side of paths surrounded by beautiful perennials and I loved
the large green open spaces that gave the park the flexibility that it needed. I
thought it was creative that along the river, they had brought water into the space,
making separate spaces for habitats to flourish, and people could reconnect
with water and nature. I also through the benches that came out the side of the
banks created good use of space, and made people want to sit there due to
feeling protection, from the mounds.
Park patter from above, following the flow of the river.
This was, and how they described
their designs and themselves as a practice. I thought it was fitting. They have
a very expressive design process, they always seem to be creating ground-breaking
and very interesting places, the patterns, the pathways and the features are
always different. But place specific and that’s why I think their designs work
so well. There have been many elements of their designs that I would love to
take forward into my own, and I think just become a bit more explorative and
expressive when designing places, try to aim to get that ‘oh wow’ response. Do
different things, do crazy designs, play with topography and vantage points and
just try to create landscapes with layers and depths to them.
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