october 2009
Architecture
+ Design Scotland
Over the summer both Chris and Kenny have been asked to participate in
A+DS design reviews looking at projects where achieving high quality of landscape
design is critical to the success of the proposed development.
Gorebridge Community Hub
We have been appointed by Gorebridge Community Development Trust to work
with Lee Boyd Architects on the design of a new community facility in Gorebridge.
On a complex site the landscape design is intended to act as the connective tissue
between several community facilities including the proposed hub.
SNH
Information Point
Working with StudioLR we have designed an information
point and small shelter for Scottish Natural Heritage’s Battleby Headquarters.
The structure will be constructed from sustainably sourced Scottish oak and stone
filled gabion baskets. The stone is being sourced from an on site store of building
materials reclaimed by SNH from previous renovation work, thus minimising transport
costs and re-using a local stone.
may 2009
Speirs Lock Masterplan recognised
again
Speirs Locks has been unveiled as one
of the eleven Exemplar projects under the Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative.
The Scottish Government launched the SSCI to encourage innovation in the creation
of new settlements and to promote exemplars of how communities could live in the
future.
The SSCI is concerned with creating places which go beyond standard solutions with
the aim raising aspirations to achieve quality placemaking, improved energy performance
and more sustainable forms of development.
april 2009
Edegem Town Square, Belgium
rankinfraser working in collaboration
with Verne Architecten of Ghent have been shortlisted in an international competition
to design a new public square for Edegem, a district of Antwerp.
march 2009
Speirs Locks wins BURA Award
Speirs Lock Masterplan has won the Strategy
and Masterplanning Award at the 2009 BURA Waterway Renaissance Awards.
The jury stated "The project illustrates the effectiveness of delivery by the joint
venture vehicle. It demonstrates best practice in terms of the community and stakeholder
engagement process, to produce a framework consistent with the sustainability charter.
It makes excellent use of design guidelines and the design process. The significance
of the submission is not simply in the masterplan itself but the approach being
taken which successfully integrates and sets best practice in all of the elements
that are required to deliver transformational and sustainable regeneration."
february 2009
rankinfraser landscape architecture voted 'Landscape Architects of the Year' by Prospect Magazine.
october 2008
rankinfraser shortlisted in
International Competition
We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the Pennine Squared International
Design Competition. We will be working with Graeme Massie Architects and Donald
Urquhart to develop a series of public realm improvements for Clitheroe.
august 2008
a garden for an advertising
agency
we were asked to help Newhaven, our neighbours at 77 Montgomery Street,
to realise their ideas for a "ned-proof garden which requires no maintenance and
can be used for both parties and entertaining clients". Timber decks and screens
and artificial grass were combined with demountable over head canopies to keep the
sun off your laptop screen.
Photos
of the garden
case study rouen
chris
has been asked by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles
to join an international workshop in September to study the post industrial harbour
areas of Rouen.
may 2008
royal scottish academy
the rnli memorial and garden proposal has been selected for inclusion in the rsa
annual exhibition. the exhibition runs from 10 May - 25 June 2008 in their gallery
on the mound, edinburgh.
