Grant Associates news

May 2021

18 May

Grant Associates unveils Chinese-inspired design plans for Chelsea Flower Show 2021 garden

Peter Chmiel and Chin-Chin-Jung Chen have revealed the ambitious design concept for their show garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2021, which aims to show how cities of the future must be considered as landscape cities.

April 2021

23 Apr

Grant Associates’ Martin Knight appointed to new Design Council expert network

Martin Knight, Associate at Grant Associates in Bath, has been appointed to the Design Council’s new network of more than 400 built and natural environment experts, who collectively embody the organisation’s commitment to make life better by design.

March 2021

15 Mar

Sustainable waterfront ‘urban village’ previewed in Singapore

Grant Associates is part of the team behind The Reef at King's Dock, a new sustainable residential development in Singapore that will combine striking urban architecture with the opportunity to reconnect with nature and appreciate marine biodiversity.

February 2021

05 Feb

Grant Associates to work on innovative Dublin masterplan

Grant Associates is part of a multi-disciplinary team led by Maccreanor Lavington that is set to deliver a masterplan strategic framework for a 700ha site in west Dublin.

November 2020

11 Nov

Leading Singaporean landscape architects declare climate and biodiversity emergency

Leading Singaporean landscape architecture firms are calling on local and international landscape architects to act in response to climate change and biodiversity loss.

October 2020

21 Oct

Harbour cove designed by Grant Associates opens in Barangaroo, Sydney

A new harbour cove and boardwalk designed by landscape architect Grant Associates has opened to the public in Barangaroo in Sydney’s new business district.

15 Oct

Grant Associates designs landscape strategy for 1,300 new homes in South Dublin

Grant Associates is working with Fletcher Priest Architects to design the masterplan for a new community in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, South Dublin for developer Quintain Ireland Ltd.

March 2020

13 Mar

Bristol’s YTL Arena gets green light

Bristol City Council has granted YTL permission to repurpose the Brabazon aircraft hangars at the former Filton Airfield and deliver a new live entertainment complex for Bristol. Grant Associates worked with lead architect Grimshaw, Manica Architecture and OPS Engineers to create the scheme's design concept.

February 2020

07 Feb

Andrew Grant member of group calling for ‘quality’ design principles for national infrastructure projects

Andrew Grant, founder and director at Grant Associates, is one of ten expert members of a design group tasked by the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) to deliver quality design principles for national infrastructure projects.

03 Feb

Grant Associates participates in UN’s World Urban Forum

Grant Associates is to participate in the tenth staging of the United Nations (UN)’s World Urban Forum, taking place 8-13 February 2020 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

January 2020

10 Jan

Leading UK landscape architects declare climate and biodiversity emergency

Leading UK landscape architecture firms are calling on landscape architects around the world to act in response to climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.

December 2019

12 Dec

Grant Associates rebrands with launch of new website

UK and Singapore based landscape architect Grant Associates has rebranded with a new website, aiming to express the creative, collaborative and pioneering approach of the award-winning practice.

November 2019

22 Nov

Grant Associates designs landscape strategy for UK’s third largest arena complex

YTL has submitted a planning application to Bristol City Council and South Gloucestershire Council to repurpose the Brabazon aircraft hangars at the former Filton Airfield, delivering a new entertainment complex for Bristol and the South West. Grant Associates has designed the landscape strategy for the complex proposal.

October 2019

21 Oct

Grant Associates helps Asia’s leading leisure destination reimagine Singaporean islands

A major conceptual masterplan to reinvent the Singaporean islands of Sentosa and Pulau Brani as a global leisure and recreation destination, set within a biodiverse tropical landscape, has been unveiled.

11 Oct

Grant Associates scoops landscape architecture award for Robinson Tower

Grant Associates has scooped an award at the Singapore Landscape Architecture Awards 2019 for Robinson Tower. Working with KPF and Architects 61, Grant Associates’ landscape strategy for the tower in Singapore was to integrate multi-functional greening and urban ecology.

May 2019

30 May

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.

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).

ABOUT GRANT ASSOCIATES

Grant Associates is a pioneering international landscape architecture practice. Our work reconnects people with nature in insightful, delightful and distinctive ways whilst addressing the global challenges of urbanisation, the climate crisis and biodiversity extinction.

Our design process is underpinned by a knowledge of human behaviour, nature and ecological science combined with innovative design technology. We bring original thinking, creative collaboration and are exploring what regenerative design and the circular economy means to landscape architecture.

Our varied portfolio includes ambitious large-scale, landmark projects through to small, local ventures.