Online Portfolio

With my third year of university coming to a close, myself and many others have created an online portfolio for showing prospective companies our work. Please feel free to have a look at sdarg.moonfruit.com or visit www.landscapeis.org to view the third years uni work we have all been working on.

http://sdarg.moonfruit.com

Banksy At Waterloo Underpass

Short video showing public art produced by Banksy and the general public.

Focus Week Five: New Street lighting at Gabriels Wharf

Short Video showing light patterns at under passage, Gabriels Wharf

Focus Week 5: Banksy

Banksy has had the joys of showing some of his marvellous artwork along a Tunnel underneath Waterloo Station. The Tunnel used to be used when the existing Euro tunnel run from there but is now full of artwork. The Graffiti style art both by artists and the General public will remain, but the temporary art will be removed towards the end of May. Unfortunately due to the popular attendance i was unable to get a glimpse myself, but this is a useful link as to what to expect.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7380785.stm

Focus Week Five: Public Spaces

For the fifth and final Focus Week i thought what better way to make the most of the gorgeous weather and venture into London and Look at Public Spaces and the performances and art that occupies them.

To Start with i went to the Tate Modern where a lot of work is under way to create a series of giant graffiti style murals on the walls of London's Tate Modern gallery for its summer season.

The works, which will adorn the river-facing wall of the building, will be created by six artists including Blu, who is interested in death.

The artworks will be displayed for three months from 23 May.

A Tate spokesman said a protective coating would be placed on the wall to avoid damage when they are removed.

Other street artists involved in the project include JR from France, renowned for putting photographs of people from deprived areas of Paris onto walls in the city's affluent districts.

Sixart from Barcelona and Brazilian twin brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo will also submit ideas for the wall art.

The murals are expected to measure 15 meters by 12 meters, and will decorate the Turbine High Wall of the building, a former power station on the south bank of the Thames.

Jubilee Gardens Future, South Bank London

London's South Bank is highly recognisable for its performing Arts and events. This is mostly due to the London Eye, Hayward Gallery and the Royal Festival Hall. But as a key location that it is, Jubilee Gardens has been left behind the times.

This is all to change with the proposal by West8 to create a new renovation of Jubilee Gardens which will offer London a spectacular green public space along the Thames.

Jubilee Gardens will be a new focal point on the South Bank, elevated from the street level the park will be seperated from the London eye but will offer the most awarding views of London. The design represents a combination of the romantic green surface and the sharp and rough white edges which corespond to the white cliffs of Dover. This will act as an iconic english landmark on which is a landscape icon to be easily identified. The design is set to begin later this year.

Focus Week: Paving Materials

More London.

Having Looked at East London, i decided that i would take a closer look at Paving materials around more London as i find it fascinating how each piece of Irish blue limestone has been carefully laid and crafted into its surroundings down to where the corners meet to the Scoop are used for performances. Slot Drainage sits flush with the carefully crafted paving.

The architects that will design the 2012 Olympic Park landscape have been announced.

LDA Design • Hargreaves Associates will develop detailed proposals for the open spaces in the Olympic Park both during and after the Games. They will create a new kind of park that promotes sustainable and active living.

In 2009 work will start on the parkland's and public spaces that will help form part of the largest new urban park in London since the great Victorian era of park building.

After the Games the Park will be made up of different areas suiting a variety of needs including allotments and other food-growing areas, meadows, wetlands, wooded valleys, orchards, new wildlife habitats and facilities for sports such as canoing, mountain biking and climbing.

New cycle and footpaths will connect the Lower Lea Valley with the River Thames for the first time.

Focus Week: East London

Surrounding the Laban Center.


The new developments in East London are booming with affordable housing and modern offices. In the meantime though there is a lot of derelict buildings which are in disrepair and really give east London its true character. How the new developments will look in 2 years time will only show and prove how East London is advancing and looking to the future.

Focus Week: Silvertown East London

Peabody trust Housing.

Silvertown Eat London is a vast area which once was the main area of London where all merchandise, materials were bought in through the major docks which once existed there. Sadly in todays modern age the docklands have long gone and only few signs of what the are a once was remain. Since then a lot of re-development is currently taking place with addition to affordable

In West Silvertown is the Peabody trust's building. Work started in 2003 and was completed by early 2005 at a cost of 1.5 million pounds. The framework of the design uses timber framework and cladding which imitates the effect of water mixed with oil, or the mixed colors of the sun reflecting of a blue bottle (weird way of describing it), but it is made of light reflecting of the different colored materials using dichoric film which was inspired by the artist Martin Richman.

When the light quality changes so does the appearance on the building. The more light the more intense the color given of from the dichoric film. At night the whole building becomes illuminated giving a rich vibrant building to the area and its re-development.