DCLA Summer 2018 Newsletter
July 3rd 2018
Click here to view the DCLA Summer 2018 Newsletter.. https://mailchi.mp/24e962b314d1/dcla-summer-news-2018
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July 3rd 2018
Click here to view the DCLA Summer 2018 Newsletter.. https://mailchi.mp/24e962b314d1/dcla-summer-news-2018
April 24th 2018
At Great Ambrook, in Devon, Stephanie Berry and Kim Chapman have undertaken to restore a long-forgotten Italian-themed garden imbued with the hedonistic mood of the early 1900s
June 26th 2017
Dreaming of a garden makeover? Maybe you’re after more space to socialise, an area to grow fruit and vegetables, or a complete revamp to add value to your home? Whatever your goal, there are a number of areas to consider. We’ve gathered top tips from experts – including gardener and author Bob Flowerdew, Gardens Trust […]
January 23rd 2017
Read the full article on the Horticulture Week Website… http://www.hortweek.com/dominic-cole-commissioned-twycross-zoo-revamp/landscape/article/1421505
December 9th 2016
We are pleased to be working on more projects at HAMPSTEAD HEATH. Thank you for all the work this year, and look forward to working with you soon.
August 2nd 2016
Congratulations to Head Gardener Philip Waites for the spectacular flower displays in the walled garden at Wimpole.
August 2nd 2016
July 14th 2016
June 1st 2016
May 5th 2016
A previously overgrown and gloomy entrance to Hamspstead Heath from Swains Lane has been opened up by removing overgrown shurbbery. Tired metal railings have been replaced with rural timber fencing.
November 3rd 2015
The greatest of British Bulldogs, Wnston Churchill, created a country home for his family at Chartwell House. He extended the lakes built the kitchen garden wall and relaxed in his famous site in his famous Turnbull & Asser velvet siren suits for casual / pinstriped for more formal entertaining. DCLA are working with Caroe Architecture […]
November 2nd 2015
Dominic grew up on the Tring High Street above the GP surgery where his father was in practise. Winter afternoons often saw us visiting Tring museum or tobogganing down slopes in Tring Park. I later learnt that the museum was a birthday present from his father to Lionel Rothchild whose interest in the family banking […]
October 29th 2015
Mount Edgcumbe is a spectacular eighteenth century landscape garden surrounded by sea on a ten -minute ferry ride from Plymouth. The Edgecumbe family associated with the ‘bright young things’ of the Twickenham set: Pope, (Kent) Walpole etc. when it was quite the done thing to use your estate to create an idyllic landscape for pleasure. […]
October 26th 2015
St Michaels Church (www.saintmichaelsbrighton.org) is a Grade 1* building in the Clifton conservation area of Brighton. For a local parish church it packs a mighty punch in its roll call of prominent artist and architects who worked on its interior. Dominic Cole gave the Friends and Annual lecture to some 80 people: talking across a […]
October 20th 2015
Charlton House (1612) is one of London’s great Jacobean houses, built for the tutor to Prince Henry, Son of James I. The house is high on a hill and looks out across the Thames basin and the meandering Thames running in to London and the city. When built, it would have looked across open pastures, […]
October 8th 2015
The IHBC (www.ihbc.org.uk) is a leading resource for professionals and local Arts officers etc. working in the Historic Environment. The theme of this years conference was landscape and included talks by landscape Architects and historians. Dominic talked about the work he has been doing for the National Trust and their response to the impacts of […]
September 19th 2015
‘Kings Cross lands’ and the Regents Quarter run around the north & east sides of the two great terminals of Kings Cross & St Pancras (Saint Pancras was a Roman citizen who converted to Christianity and was beheaded for his faith in c.300) Big Developers are seen as the evil opposition but Argent & P&O […]
August 12th 2015
June 17th 2015
On the 17th June 2015 Dominic Cole offered a landscape walk in the heart of London. The River Thames runs at the southern – most route of its topographic past: it once issued into the north- sea towards the wash in East Anglia. One of its previous meanders took it underneath what is now Trafalgar […]
March 31st 2015
Removal of a Significant Post War Landscape from the English Heritage Register Dominic Cole, GHS chairman The Commonwealth Institute building in Holland Park, off Kensington High Street, London, is considered by English Heritage to be the second most important modern building in London after the Festival Hall. It is being refurbished to house the Design […]
October 23rd 2014
October 8th 2014
Refining the urban jungle Park Village East, Regent’s Park, London NW1 A calm oasis of green in the environs of Nash’s Regent’s Park belies its proximity to the city, finds Vanessa Berridge Photographs by Marianne Majerus AFTER John Nash laid out Regent Street and the grand terraces beside Regent’s Park, he created one of London’s […]
August 27th 2014
Visit to Lowther Castle, August 2014, to see how the landscape is getting on – http://www.dominiccole.net/project/lowther-castle/ Paths and Lawns Installed View from Prospect Terrace Countess Garden
April 8th 2014
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardenstovisit/10681541/Trentham-the-garden-makeover-of-the-decade.html
March 6th 2014
