Underwood, Ballard’s Farm Road
A proposed landscape design for Ballard's Farm Road a residential development that would enhance the existing leafy, woodland feel of the location, whilst including flood mitigation, tree preservation, biodiversity, and habitat creation.
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.
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?"
Maintenance
Horticultural Maintenance Beyond the Design The art of horticultural maintenance is to nurture a garden from its completion (or current state) through the years, improving and developing it with time. While tidying your garden is important, when you are dealing with nature, where plants grow and change over time, ensuring they are given the correct care can be the difference between blooming and decaying. Regular grounds maintenance CGLA, unlike most companies, do not offer weekly “mow and blow” garden maintenance, there are plenty of other options who can do this. Instead, what we offer is skilled
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.
Milton Park
A playful breakout space for employees for a large global Biotechnology Company which is inspired by the process of DNA Fingerprinting. The use of interlocking forms and a bespoke, sculptural canopy allowed us to create a truly unique space which captures the company`s brand
18th Floor Roof Top Terrace
Colmore Row 103 is 230,084 sq ft of Grade A office space at the very centre of Birmingham’s Business District. The 18th floor rooftop terrace is an outdoor space designed to be quite versatile, serving not only as a day-to-day breakout space with a difference, but as an enviable event space for the city. Guided by environmental design principles using fluid dynamics and sun / shade analysis we have managed to create a comfortable and unique destination which pays homage to the industrial heritage of the city.
Creating a Large Entertaining Garden for a Young Family in London
Discover our stunning garden design for a large city home. We created exciting spaces for children and seating areas for relaxation, all surrounded by lush trees and plants.
Dorina Flanek
Dorina Flanek Landscape Architect Email: dorina@cgla.co.uk View LinkedIn profile Dorina Flanek is one of the Landscape Architects in CGLA. Originally from Hungary, graduated as a Landscape Architect in 2017. Got professional experience working for various different size landscape firms in the UK and in Hungary before joining CGLA in 2021. EARLY CAREER She was born and raised in a big city, grew up in large panel block, right on the top of a ten-storey building with not much green around. But, maybe because of the desire to get out of the city she fell in love with hiking
