Focus Week : Kings cross ST Pancras

Kings cross St Pancras is undergoing a huge redevelopment process costing 800 million pounds. This is to allow for the new terminal for the channel tunnel rail link or as it will be known fast track which will allow commuters to travel from ash ford in Kent to Kings Cross in just 27 mins.
The whole development plan also includes the pedestrianization of Kings cross and the development of shops, cafes, luxury apartments along Regents Canal.
After Looking around the new Eurostar terminal i walked around the outside of the station to get an idea of the other development work currently taking place. The old St Pancras chambers are being converted into luxury apartments as well as a hotel for business workers and visitors from overseas. As well as luxury apartments there is also one penthouse suite worth an outstanding 10 million pounds!!!. As well as the grand station being revived the Midland mainline has also had an extension to allow for the new high speed train service which will allow quicker traveling times to Kent. Once the station is fully finished the main entrance to it will be allot easier to access rather then the current confusion on how to access the site and move around it while the finishing touches are put in place.

North Downs Kent

In the next few days i shall be of to the North Downs in Kent where i will be resefching on shrubs wood barrow in Bodsham. As of yet the area and geographical knowledge of the area is still vaige but once visiting and recording all the relevent information there will be a much bigger and understnading post on the North downs and the Barrow.

Windsor Great Park

The Great Park, part of a vast Norman hunting chase, is set in 2,020 hectares (5,000 acres) of the Surrey and Berkshire countryside stretching from Windsor Castle to the north and Ascot to the south. With its varied landscape and sweeping deer lawns, woods, coverts and huge solitary ancient oaks, the park abounds in wildlife. The pastoral landscape offers over 2 million visitors a year peaceful respite and the opportunity to witness a rich and unique heritage a thousand years in the making.

Kent Downs AONB'S Useful Websites

www.kent.gov.uk= Kents Local goverment website with useful links of what is going on in the Kent Borough.

www.aonb.org= Website for all AONB'S around the U.K.

www.thehistorychannel.co.uk= For use of what a Barrow (burial mound) is.

www.roman-britain.org= History on why and what the meaning of having barrows ment.

www.visitkent.co.uk= Local events on Kent and what Kent has on offer to visitors.

www.kentdowns.org.uk= How they are developing close links with neighbouring urban aonb's.

www.nationaltrail.co.uk= Information on all the wildlife and nature trail links accross England.


The list of useful websites relevent to North Downs in Kent. Hopefuly these will prove useful in understanding the area and developing ideas further.

Richmond park in late september

Richmond park can be magnificant at all times of the year, wheather it be winter, spring summer or in this case the beginning of fall or as we call it autumn. Using my latest camera i was able to take some close ups of different views around richmond park and see the beauty of the trees from a different perspective.

Section of plants Experimentation

Experimentation with photoshop on a section of plants for the ecological park in Lowestoft.

Autocad techniques

Autocad has been around for a while now and allows architects and Landscape Architects to view base plans of an area aswell as designing floor plans, side elevations of buildings and generaly any structure.

Photoshop on Ecological park Lowestoft

On a project in Lowestoft Looking at how a dull derelict area can be transformed to attract people back to the coastline of Lowestoft i designed an ecological park. One of the key tools in helping to show the development of ideas and see how they will look on the site is photoshop. The images show how certain parts of the ecological park will look and be transformed.

Architecture Association

The A A School of Architecture (more usually known as the AA or AA School of Architecture) is one of the leading architectural schools in the UK. Its wide-ranging programme of exhibitions, lectures, symposia and publications have given it a central position in global discussions and developments within contemporary architectural culture.

Portsmouth Panoramics