Grant Associates news

30 MAY, 2019

Grant Associates ‘Rewilding Garden’ opens to public in Beijing

A garden designed by Grant Associates on behalf of the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) for International Horticultural Exposition - Expo 2019 Beijing has opened to the public, giving people a chance to experience ‘wild’ nature in the Chinese capital.

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May 2019

24 May

Andrew Grant selected for influential new Design Group

Andrew Grant, founder and director of landscape architect Grant Associates, is one of ten people selected by the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to form an influential new Design Group.

07 May

Grant Associates on design team for proposed YTL Arena in Bristol

YTL has announced the design team for its plan to deliver an arena for Bristol in the historic Brabazon hangars.

March 2019

25 Mar

Planning approval for first homes at Filton Airfield

Planning approval to deliver 278 new homes on the site of the former Filton Airfield has been granted by South Gloucestershire Council. Grant Associates is creating the landscape and public realm strategy for the development, working closely with the architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios on behalf of site owner YTL Developments.

08 Mar

Planning success for former HM Prison Kingston site

A scheme to regenerate Portsmouth’s former HM Prison Kingston into 267 homes has been given planning approval and listed building consent by Portsmouth City Council.

04 Mar

Agar Grove wins two gongs at London Planning Awards 2019

Agar Grove Estate scooped the Mayor’s Award for Good Growth and the Mayor’s Award for Sustainable and Environmental Planning at the 2019 London Planning Awards.

January 2019

23 Jan

Grant Associates designs garden for 2019 Beijing International Horticultural Expo

Grant Associates is to create a permanent exhibition garden on behalf of the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) for the 2019 Beijing International Horticultural Exposition.

December 2018

05 Dec

Grant Associates’ masterplan for new district in Madrid wins outline planning

A masterplan by British duo architect Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners and landscape architect Grant Associates to create a new business and residential district in north Madrid has won outline planning.

November 2018

29 Nov

Bath’s Forest of Imagination wins top award for temporary landscape

Forest of Imagination, the Bath based pop-up contemporary arts event, has been crowned best Temporary Landscape at the 2018 Landscape Institute (LI) Awards.

27 Nov

Scheme to restore Bath’s natural heritage wins £1.65 million National Lottery grant

An ambitious scheme to restore and protect Bath’s local natural heritage has secured £1.65 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).

05 Nov

Andrew Grant to present at Creative Bath Inspires

Andrew Grant, director and founder of landscape architect Grant Associates, will present at the next ‘in conversation-with’ Inspires event, hosted by Creative Bath.

October 2018

23 Oct

HS2’s vision for Curzon Street Station features urban realm design by Grant Associates

HS2 has revealed its vision for a new station at Curzon Street, Birmingham with a design by WSP, Grimshaw, Glenn Howells Architects and landscape architecture by Grant Associates.

05 Oct

Grant Associates part of winning design team for Australia’s tallest building

Landscape architect Grant Associates was part of the winning team led by UNStudio and Cox Architecture to design Southbank by Beulah – an AUS$2 billion mixed use development in Melbourne, Australia.

August 2018

28 Aug

Tottenham Hale redevelopment plan features landscape design by Grant Associates

03 Aug

Outline planning permission granted for the University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus

Grant Associates is part of the design team that has helped secure outline planning permission for the University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus – a significant milestone in the long-awaited regeneration of this prime city centre site.

June 2018

27 Jun

Sir David Attenborough backs designers’ plan to help save endangered lemurs

Sir David Attenborough has given his support to a vital project for a new field station in Madagascar to help save critically endangered lemurs.

21 Jun

Southampton’s Watermark Westquay wins 2018 Prix-Versailles World Architecture Award

Watermark Westquay, a major mixed-use scheme in Southampton by architect ACME with landscape design by Grant Associates, has won a coveted 2018 Prix-Versailles World Architecture Award.

May 2018

25 May

Grant Associates showcases 20 years of collaborative design work

Grant Associates, Thomas Matthews and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios are staging a joint exhibition in London to showcase 20 years of collaborative design work. Collaborative by Nature will open at architect FCB Studios’ office in Fitzrovia on 4 June 2018 featuring work by all three studios, which share a common belief in collaboration, sustainability and a passion for the natural environment.

10 May

Award for urban redevelopment scheme in Porto, Portugal, featuring landscape design by Grant Associates

A significant mixed-use urban regeneration scheme designed by Bogle Architects and Grant Associates for Portugal’s coastal city of Porto has been awarded a Commendation at the 2018 MIPIM/The Architectural Review: Future Projects Awards.

January 2018

05 Jan

Green light for residential-led regeneration scheme at Icknield Port Loop, Birmingham

Birmingham City Council has approved plans for the first phase of a major residential regeneration scheme at Icknield Port Loop, Birmingham. Working closely with Glenn Howells Architects, Maccreanor Lavington Architects and ShedKM, Grant Associates has created a detailed landscape masterplan that will see 207 family homes and 90 apartments built, along with green infrastructure including a new public park, public open spaces, communal gardens and canal-side public realm.

November 2017

17 Nov

West Country designers team up with Bristol Zoo to save Madagascar's lemurs

Landscape architect Grant Associates has teamed up with Bristol Zoological Society (BZS) and fellow Bath based architect Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBStudios) in a project to save Madagascar’s critically endangered wildlife, including the blue-eyed black lemur, and their forest habitat.

01 Nov

Regeneration plans for Filton Airfield take-off

Plans by infrastructure and development company YTL to regenerate Bristol’s historic 350-acre site at Filton Airfield have received the green light from South Gloucestershire Council.

October 2017

17 Oct

Andrew Grant appointed Chair of Bathscape Landscape Partnership

Andrew Grant, founder and director of Bath based landscape architect Grant Associates, has been appointed Chair of Bathscape Landscape Partnership.

September 2017

22 Sep

Supertrees feature in global expo about urban nature

Grant Associates’ designs for the Supertree Grove of Singapore’s internationally acclaimed Gardens by the Bay are to feature at the Expo for Design, Innovation & Technology (EDIT) in Toronto, Canada. The Supertrees will appear in ‘The Green and the Gray’, an interactive exhibition curated by international design studio Carlo Ratti Associati, 28 September to 8 October 2017.

August 2017

17 Aug

SOM masterplan for Colombo, Sri Lanka features designs by Grant Associates

Architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has won an international competition to design a new finance and marina district for Sri Lanka’s largest city Colombo with a masterplan created in collaboration with Grant Associates. The scheme will see the transformation of 269 hectares of reclaimed land next to Colombo's Central Business District (CBD), creating a landmark destination for commerce, tourism, and culture in South Asia.

ABOUT GRANT ASSOCIATES

Grant Associates is an international landscape architecture consultancy inspired by the creative possibilities of sustainable landscapes and driven by the desire to connect people and nature. Our work fuses nature and technology in imaginative ways to create cutting-edge designs guided by a concern for the environment and a desire to enhance people’s quality of life.

Grant Associates has experience in all scales and types of ecological and landscape development including strategic landscape planning, master planning, urban design and regeneration and landscapes for parks, housing, education, sport, recreation, visitor attractions and commerce.

For more information visit www.grant-associates.uk.com