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EDITOR’S LETTER
SIZE AND SCALE
Editor : Michael Northcott
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T
his month’s international focus is on a project of
lordly scale and ambition. We looked at Ferrexpo,
a colossal landscape project located right next to an
opencast mine in Ukraine, designed by landscape
architecture firm Spacehub. The project set about improving
the way opencast mining is viewed. Alessandro Carrara spoke
with director Tom Smith to find out how the project will
improve working conditions for the miners as well as the local
environment.
Tim described the brief as a concept design for dealing with
waste products coming from the iron ore mine. The firm’s client,
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Kostyantin Zhedago, who owns Ferrexpo, said with this project
he wanted to change the face of open-cast mining.
At Home, Turkington Martin were asked to create a
comprehensive public realm masterplan for a residential scheme
of 600 apartments and a new stadium for Wimbledon Football
Club, together with detailed proposals for communal AFC
Wimbledon courtyard gardens. Lewis Catchpole sat down with
the lead landscape architect Tim Spain to hear more about the
project.
The brief was to design a setting for the residential and retail
buildings that improved local connectivity and legibility and
to prepare a landscape design that responded to the needs of
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residential occupiers, members of the public passing through
the site, and those attending football matches and congregating
outside of the stadium before matches.
I hope you enjoy the issue.
Michael Northcott
Editor
Landscape Insight
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