News
If you want to read a bit more before you pick up the phone or you just want to see what we are up to from day to day, then look no further than our news pages.
Why we all love roses – inspiration, choices and maintenance
Everyone loves roses but here we take a look at where to get inspiration from, choices of roses and maintenance.
Spring Garden Inspiration – Wild Plants in Hedgerows
Taking spring garden inspiration from Devon, our own CEO - Ruth Marshall looks at hedgerows, bluebells and wild flower meadows with mown paths.
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
5 steps to your perfect garden design – step 4, Materials, Features and Magic
Step 4 - Materials, Features and Magic. A fantastic blog about how to add something unique and special to your garden. A must have read when you are looking for inspiration for your garden for summer.
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.
5 steps to your perfect garden design – step 3d, a recipe for planting delights
Part 4 - Favourite Plants. A fantastic blog about plants and all the wonderful 'must haves' for your garden, if nothing else loads of wonderful inspiration as you think about flowers in your garden for summer.
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.
2020 – What a year!
A visual look back at all we achieved as a team, in what was probably the strangest year of our lifetime.
5 steps to your perfect garden design – step 3c, a recipe for planting delights
Part 3 - Form. A review of how to create stucture through different styles of plants within dedicated spaces. Read on, if you are embarking on a new garden design.