Reflecting seventy years of landscape architecture

Reflection

1. In October 1981, Brian Clouston and Partners were invited by the Merseyside Development Corporation to lead the Riverside Reclamation Team. The official opening of the International Garden Festival was held on May 2 1984.

© Liverpool Echo.

It will take many years to evaluate the impact of the ‘new Elizabethan age’ on the built and natural environment. Landscape invited a number of past presidents to choose a significant moment.

2. Liverpool International Garden Festival ’84 guide, designed and produced by Brunswick Publishing.

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Opening of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 2012. © LLDC

Thamesmead

A visit to Thamesmead in 1980. © Thamesmead Community Archive and London Metropolitan Archive.

Ministry of Defence Executive Headquarters at Abbey Wood

Opening of the Ministry of Defence Executive Headquarters at Abbey Wood, Bristol designed by Jane Findlay IPPLI. © FIRA

RHS Back to Nature Garden at Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Back to Nature Garden at Chelsea Flower Show, 2019. Codesigned by the Duchess of Cambridge, Andree Davies and Adam White PPLI. © Adam White

Jubilee Gardens

Opening of the newly-designed Jubilee Gardens on London’s South Bank, 2012. © South Bank Employers’ Group