WHAT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT OFFER - FROM LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE

Landscape architecture: a guide for clients
- what landscape architects offer

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Landscape architecture is a creative profession, skilled in strategic planning, delivery and management. It is rooted in an understanding of how the environment works and what makes each place unique. Bringing vision, imagination and technical rigour to a project, regardless of scale, landscape professionals see the bigger picture - this is the role of landscape architecture.

 

Vision: the power to transform places

Integrated landscape-led design has the power to transform a place into somewhere that has character and beauty - and is highly functional.

Landscape at the heart of 'excellent ordinary housing'	The Wirral hosts the UK's largest regeneration project	Enhancing the Cotswolds landscape

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Masterplanning: success through starting with the site

Appreciating a site's full potential in the short and long term, landscape architects work with issues from heritage to investment opportunities - creating design solutions that work for communities, the economy and theenvironment.

Early action brings drama to Lewes campus	Green routes knit together new housing in County Durham

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Assessment: locating major infrastructure

Expertise in assessing effects of new power infrastructure enables landscape professionals to develop design, delivery, management andrestoration strategies to minimise environmental impacts. 

Routing new grid connections in the North West	Assessing impacts from the low-carbon revolution in Wales	Power from waste in Oxfordshire

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Added value: optimising the use of land

By taking a holistic approach to design and minimising the use of resource intensive materials, landscape architects can reduce construction costs anddevelop new income streams - delivering value, creatively.

The Eden Project reinvents the botanical garden	Green roof for Victorian railway cutting in Islington	'Moving mountains' creates popular park for West London

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Meaningful consultation: listening to what people say

Landscape professionals are trained in techniques for engaging local communities in decision-making, listening to what people say, responding positively to their fears and aspirations - and reconciling competing demands.

Residents direct new food gardens in Birmingham	A midsummer night's dream in Camden	1930s Essex holiday retreat refreshed

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Collaboration: building strong partnerships

Leading multidisciplinary teams, landscape professionals are able to deliver integrated project management and build partnerships - balancing local aspirations, economic drivers and pressures on land and resources.

Yorkshire's Olympic Stanza Stones	Completing the island setting for the Olympic Stadium	A brighter future for South Lowestoft