Grant Associates news

February 2020

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).

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

Argent Related has submitted proposals for the mixed-use redevelopment of Tottenham Hale in North London, featuring 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.

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.