Love Me Tender
Last week the post brought the excellent news that my tender submissions for re-appointment as an Expert Adviser to the Heritage Lottery Fund had been successful. The Heritage Lottery Fund uses Advisers to help assess grant applications and to work with applicants to...
Planet Earth
Sustainability can be a hard concept to explain and interestingly one of the best talks I have heard wasn’t by a sustainability professional but by the physicist Professor Brain Cox. He spoke at Ecobuild 2011 and used the ideas from Carl Sagan’s book...
Shake the Disease
It isn’t often that environmental issues make it into the news or prompt a meeting of the UK Government’s COBR crisis committee. The gradual decline of a rare species may worry environmentalists but it sadly doesn’t make for dramatic headlines....
I Want to be a Landscape Architect
I love this little video explaining our profession. Some other great examples on the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) site The professional body for the UK is the Landscape Institute
It’s A Mystery – My Top 3 Landscape Myths
All professionals have myths that they have to regularly counter and in my work as a landscape architect I regularly come across a number that persist. I’ve drawn up my top three but there are many more! Myth #1 – All Trees Have Tap Roots Truth –...
Fifteen
Today is a bit of a milestone for me as it marks the fifteenth anniversary of my business. Cast your mind back to the summer of 1996 – the Summer Olympic Games had just started in Atlanta, Wannabee by the Spice Girls was on the radio and the X Files were on TV....
A Rose by any other Name
I recently watched this fascinating film from The Guardian about the flower producing industry in Kenya and the impact on the local environment and community. It shocked me that that the local community has to compete with the flower industry for such a vital...
Take a Chance
In this climate of cuts and cost savings it is great to have some positive news. Perhaps as a reaction to economic uncertainty the number of lottery tickets sold has greatly increased. This increase is part of the reason that the Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF)...
Everyone’s A Winner – The Be2awards
It was a gorgeous sunny day in London with clear blue skies and even a hint of spring in the air. So why on earth were so many built environment types sitting in a darkened room busily tweeting, blogging and avoiding daylight? The explanation was another great Be2camp...About Me
My name is Claire Thirlwall and I’m a chartered landscape architect. I run Thirlwall Associates, a landscape architecture consultancy based in Oxfordshire.
I work with architects, engineers, planners, project managers and other construction professionals. I also work as a sub-consultant to other landscape architects.