http://www.ribabookshops.com/ good site for architecture and landscape books and journals

Like this step a arrangement that cleverly incorporates disabled access. Slopes and steps near Liverpool Street.

Fakenham is a small town in Norfolk that was voted the most boring place to live in the country a few years ago, dont know by who? It may be slighly boring but I think its actually very bootiful and a nice place to visit to represent Norfolk. Its also recently had some developement which includes the town square. The square celebrates Fakenham's history as a centre for the printing industry in Norfolk. Rows of the printing press letters, numbers and digits make the ground of the square. As well as the benches and lighting that surround the it, the press has weathered which makes the space blend in with the surroundings almost naturally.

At the football with the old man watching the canaries. Got some box tickets through dad's archiectural technolodgy buisness so eat in Delia Smith's restaurant and endured another draw. Not even any goals this time! 0-0 against Leicester. Deserved more.

Bix Work This is my latest work which responds to the brief set by Kingston council which I talk about in the post dated 12th January 2007. (click images to enlarge and be able to read)

http://www.eyeframe.co.uk/ this is this website to the people that did the dvd menu's and root menu's etc to one of my favorite films- "Zidane a 21st century portrait"
http://www.artificial-eye.com/zidane/main.html this is a reveiw of the film

Visited Kingston College to attend a coverence regarding a compotision set to both university and college sudents. The project is part of the K+20 scheme which is the redevelopement project for Kingston-upon-thames throughout the next 20 years. Our breif is to design a symbolic gateway into Kingston at the colege round about site. There are 200 students envolved in this compotision comprising Kingston uni landscape years 1,2 and 3, Kingston product design students as well as Kingston colege landscape students. There is two weeks to complete proposals and there is a £100 prize for the best from both uni and college.

Bix Work After studying smaller sites to work with we where set a project to study and propose work for a large scale site. I chose to conserntrate my reseach and develope a 600 hecture park called Parco Nord which is just north of Milan. The park is a relatively new park and is still being developed from when work was started in 1983. The park used to be used for residitial agricultural areas, illegal dump, abbandoned industrial plants etc but now the park has been transformed into a traditional woodland park, although there are still agricultural areas in use as well as many sports parks. Also there are two 16th century villa's on the park with italian renaisance gardens.
Villa Manzoni is on the north western edge of the and was named after the writer who used to spend his time here studying and later experimenting its knowledge of botany. Between 1810 and 1820 he personally followed the planting of 950 trees and 570 bushes which still grow around the villa There are samples of plane tree, yew, british oak, honey locust which are believed to be of the original planting, as well as the chestnut tree under which Manzoni composed il5 maggio ode for the death of Napoleon. The villa's trees are the most precious in the whole park and reach the height of 40 meters and some of them have trunks seven meters wide. At the present the Forest Services of Parco Nord are monitoring all the park trees in order to control their growth and their state.
Villa Torretta is on the east side of the park is one of the most prestigious visitor centers. In the 16th century it was a superb countryside residence for the milanese aristocracy. In the following centuries It was abandoned until becoming home to the farmers who worked in the countryside of the milanese suburb and during the war it was a refuge. In 1981 Parco Nord decided to buy the building maintaining a few elements of architectural and artistic interest but it was in a state of abandon. The villa was restored in 1998. The existing frescoes represent an important example of 18th century milanese pictorial art.
After reseaching this interesting historical information I had no choice but to include the villa's as a part of my proposals. I created a pathway to link the Manzoni to Torretta, this also created a link from the west side of the park to the east side. One of the main features of the pathway is that it is raised 20m in height to give a different spacial experience whilst travelling through the trees. The pathways also ventures off in different directions through the woodland areas. This creates 'enclosed' areas between the pathways which act like town squares, market squares or even performance areas. There are regular intervals of archways and stairs which gives people choice to change there route so its not a tedious journey from a to b. People can walk though the pathway, within the pathway or on top of the pathway. I feel as though the centre of the link is more of a hectic, busy market environment and as you step further away from this along the pathway closer to the villa's it becomes a relaxed and chilled out place. The good thing with large scale projects is that you can create a number of different social atmopheres.
The design of the pathway's external surface is made up of a traditional english brick shape and size. I wanted to use this extremely regular material on mass by useing each brick as a writing form, pattern design or direction giving multi-use function for creation. Information is displayed on the wall such as distance to Manzoni/ Torretta. Internally is given to whatever particular event is on at any particular time. Starts as a blank canvas for people to use as they wish. to paint, flyer, graffitti on, tag, create goal posts etc.

(above image)"Talvinder, you’ll never guess, it’s the Pacific Ocean again!” (2007)
Exhibition at white cube in Hoxton Square of Cerith Wyn Evans. Dont really understand the deeper meaning behind Wyn Evans work after reading the exhibitions suplement. On the ground floor there is a three-dimensional white neon sculpture which is representational of a sound score. This work reflects the artists interest in the composer John Cage as well as particle physics.
For better understanding look at the white cube exhibition site http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/cwe_new_work/

Went to Union gallery on Ewer street near Southwark tube stop to see the photography of Richard Learoyd. Although it said open on the door it was shut but the cleaner let me in to have my own private view! Huge and rich life size pieces. Learoyd builds his own camera which captures the image without any negative. Instead light is directly focused by the camera onto a positive photographic paper. The images are therefore unique. I really like the idea of this process. I remember on my foundation at Norwich we were encouraged not to use digital photography as you don't appreciate every shot you take. Images can just be chopped and changed and deleted. Also with digital the process seems less magical loosing anticipation of every shot.

(above image) Richard Learoyd b.1966 Agnes B, 2007

this is his web page http://www.richardlearoyd.com/old/flash.htm

Visited Ham House gardens as part of my history and cultural studies essay at university. The gardens are mainly influenced by italian and french renaissance gardens. The above image looks through the clipped hedges on to the cherry garden. It was mainly main up of lavender, I only saw two cherry trees.

http://www.flitcham.com/ this is the website of my village

Back home for Christmas and theres nothing I like more than watching the mighty city draw at home to Wolves. I love watching the carnaries (Norwich City Footbal Club). If Landscape Architecture is about spacial experience this is my favorite. A lot of the time its disappointing but when its good its mega! Peferibly at the Barclay end of Carrow Road singing "On the Ball City!"

"Kick off, throw it in, have a little scrimmage,
Keep it low, a splendid rush, bravo, win or die;
On the ball, City, never mind the danger,
Steady on, now’s your chance,
Hurrah! We’ve scored a goal. "