Landscape Architecture
Wish List to Dream Garden: How CGLA Turns Vision into Reality
CGLA celebrates its 1,000th project by spotlighting how their transparent, collaborative design-to-build approach empowers clients to create dream gardens with clarity, control, and confidence.
The Enduring Allure of Formal Gardens
Explore how symmetry, structure and timeless elegance make formal gardens a powerful and calming choice.
Designing Long, Thin Gardens: Transforming Constraints into Elegance
Designing a long, narrow garden? Discover expert tips to create elegant outdoor spaces with rhythm, flow, and a sense of discovery.
Luxury Lawn Care Through the Seasons
Expert seasonal lawn care tips for luxury UK homes. Learn how to keep your lawn healthy, green, and immaculate all year round.
Sustainable Garden Design: Creating Eco – Friendly Landscapes That Last
Create an eco-friendly garden with sustainable design tips that support nature and last.
Designing Wide but Shallow Gardens: Creating Depth & Space
Wide gardens with limited depth can feel flat and uninspiring without careful design. Learn expert techniques to create depth, enhance flow, and transform your garden into a visually spacious and elegant retreat.
Effortless Elegance: Designing a Low-Maintenance Garden
Discover expert tips on designing a stunning low-maintenance garden. Learn about plant selection, hardscaping, and smart landscaping solutions for effortless outdoor beauty.
Maximising the Potential of a Sloped Site
Transform sloped sites into stunning, functional spaces with these essential do’s and don’ts. From managing trade-offs to prioritising drainage, discover expert advice from CGLA to make the most of your unique landscape.
Planning Permission for Garden Projects in the UK: What You Need to Know
Not all garden projects in the UK need planning permission, but certain structures and landscaping changes do. Learn the essentials to ensure your garden upgrades comply with local regulations.
Do I need a garden design to have landscaping work done?
Do you really need a garden design for landscaping? Learn about the advantages and pitfalls from a seasoned professional.
How to create a entertaining garden on a steep slope
A fantastic showcase of garden of a new build house, built into a steep slope behind and around the side of the property.
Mentoring The New Generation – Eridona
This January we invited an work experience placement into CGLA. Eridona Kurtaj is studying Architecture and Environmental Design at the University of Westminster and joined us to gain some valuable hands on experience in Landscape Architecture.
Mentoring The New Generation
This summer we invited an intern into CGLA. Izabela Dima is studying Architecture and Environmental Design at the University of Westminster and joined us to gain some valuable hands on experience in Landscape Architecture.
Environmental Design and Principles of Building Physics
On December 8th and December 10th, CGLA Head of Design Eike Selby was invited by the University of Westminster School of Architecture & Cities as guest critic for the end of term presentations by 2nd year BSc Architure and Environmental Design students
CPD: What Is Landscape
Eike Selby our Head of Design held an internal lecture to the design team discussing “What is Landscape” challenging the common held perceptions of landscape architecture as a profession and how we should strive to break convention.
CPD: Conceptualisation and Abstraction
As part of our ongoing professional development, Eike Selby our Head of Design held a two part internal design workshop challenging the design team to think conceptually through abstraction, extrapolation and representation.
Workshop: Sensing the Environment
On site sketching is more than just an observational exercise. What we try and capture when we sketch should be more emotive and an exercise in deconstructing the essence of a space. Exploring juxtapositions, contrasts, light and shadow. Our Head of Design Eike Selby was invited to lead a series of on-site workshops teaching architectural students how to perceive their environments.
CPD: Landscape Architecture Between Assemblage & Morphosis
A very engaging and inspirational CPD with Cristina Morbi, Creative Director of DeThUn, discussing conceptual thinking and how we can imagine new ways of designing landscapes, not just as a series of patterns, shapes and objects, but more as a transition of spaces in time.
CPD: Environmental Design, Urban Microclimates
A very eye opening and informative CPD by Mehrdad Borna, Design Studio Leader, School of Architecture & Cities from the University of Westminster on Urban Microclimates, the first in a series of our Environmental Design CPD sessions planned for this year. This will help us truly understand the way we approach our designs, with environmental and sustainable principles becoming the core driving factors together with our unique conceptual design process.
The Art of Visualising Designs for Garden Design Projects
Discover the best ways to visually interpret garden design ideas. Hand-drawn or computer graphics to present your vision to clients.
What is Landscape?
To be a successful Landscape Architect you have to challenge perceptions and break conventions - check out our latest blog asking the question "what is Landscape?"
A Cultural Melting Pot
A blog from our Head of Design giving an insight into the world of Landscape Architecture as a discipline and how it is more encompassing, bridging art, science and engineering, mediating between technology, nature and culture.
Where Do Experts Start with Garden Design
Discover the expert process of garden design. Gain insights into creating concept designs for gardens and urban spaces.
Cool Gardens to CGLA – our Journey
It's been an amazing journey from designing small London gardens to being a firm of award winning highly artistic garden design and commercial landscape specialists.
The Importance of Collaboration: Garden Designer and Architect
Discover how garden designers and architects can work together seamlessly to create stunning outdoor spaces.
