Iconic Landscapes – Copacabana Promenade
I love the Olympics. Every four years I watch the eccentric Opening Ceremony, the hard to follow sports, (omnium – you are the main culprit here) and the tearful medal ceremonies. Watching athletes, the best in the world, is a privilege. I was lucky...
Twenty
I’m in celebratory mood today, as twenty years ago I set up my practice Thirlwall Associates. Back in 1996 Facebook, Twitter and Google were yet to exist. I was proud of my dial-up connection, choosing between using the phone or the internet. I had my pick of...
Park Life – the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
As I caught my first glimpse of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from the window of the DLR from Stratford it was hard to imagine the immaculate park I’d last seen last summer. On 28th July 2013, the first day of competition at the London 2012 Olympic...
Take Me to the River
I love this beautiful and thought provoking film about river restoration by Canadian charity Central Westcoast Forest Society based on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. They really seem to have understood the complex mix of ecological and cultural issues tied up...
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....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.