{"id":10672,"date":"2014-07-09T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10672"},"modified":"2014-07-09T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:08:23","slug":"queen-elizabeth-ii-olympic-park-london-a-review-of-the-landscape-architecture-by-robert-holden-and-tom-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/queen-elizabeth-ii-olympic-park-london-a-review-of-the-landscape-architecture-by-robert-holden-and-tom-turner\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park London: a review of the landscape architecture by Robert Holden and Tom Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"775\" height=\"580\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RCCqFs6NWhc?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RCCqFs6NWhc?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"775\" height=\"580\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nThis video review of the QE Olympic 2012 Park, by Robert Holden and Tom Turner, comprises a discussion on 29th June and video footage taken on 29th and 30th June. Mainly a review of the master planning, the two landscape architects spent too little time on the park&#8217;s often-very-good detailed design. Our fundamental point is that &#8216;the landscape planning is much better than the landscape design&#8217;. The landscape planning includes the opening up of the River Lea in the northern section of the park, the habitat-creation strategy and the park&#8217;s excellent links with its hinterland. The landscape design is dominated by vast pedestrian concourses which will be busy during events but will resemble unused airport runways on every other occasion. There is some good garden-type planting but it has not been used to make &#8216;gardens&#8217;: it is used more like strips of planting beside highways.<br \/>\nThe designers were EDAW\/Aecom, LDA Design with George Hargreaves.<br \/>\nComments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video review of the QE Olympic 2012 Park, by Robert Holden and Tom Turner, comprises a discussion on 29th June and video footage taken on 29th and 30th June. Mainly a review of the master planning, the two landscape architects spent too little time on the park&#8217;s often-very-good detailed design. Our fundamental point is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,23,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}