• 12/07/10

    Overall winner of the 2010 Housing Awards

    Grant Associates are delighted to be part of the team on ICON, Street, Somerset, announced as the overall winner of the 2010 Housing Awards. Judged by a group of panellists from across the industry, including NHBC, HCA, CABE ,RTPI, CLG and the RIBA, the scheme has been praised for its ‘’ evolution of overall layout, house typologies, car park design and integrated streetscape‘’, citing landscape and the inclusion of 40% open space , public squares, long boulevards offset by pedestrian friendly routes and well integrated housing as achieving the ‘’perfect balance of garaging, urban design and day lighting to living space’’.

    Grant Associates were the landscape architects, working with architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, developer & contractor Crest Nicholson and Planning Authority Mendip District Council.

    More information can be found here on The Housing Design Awards website

    Overall winner of the 2010 Housing Awards

  • 07/12/09

    Lime Tree Square - Building for Life 2009 Awards

     
    ‘Among the best housing designed this century.’

    Lime Tree Square, part of the ICON development in Street, Somerset, has been awarded a Building for Life 2009 Award and received the highest ever score of 19/20 for its high standards of sustainable design, as set out by CABE and the Home Builders Federation.

    Grant Associates were the landscape architects, working with FCBS as architects and developers Crest Nicholson.

    More information can be found here on the Building for Life website.

    Lime Tree Square - Building for Life 2009 Awards

  • 03/08/09

    DWELLING: ACCORDIA

    This new book, published by Black Dog, is now available in architectural bookshops and other usual literary outlets (ISBN: 9781906155902).

    Produced in collaboration with the architects FCBS, ABA and ML, the book celebrates Accordia’s win of the 2009 RIBA Sterling Prize, and explores our approach to the design process for this hugely successful housing scheme in Cambridge Brooklands.

    The launch event took place in the 18th century House of St Barnabus in Soho, London; a fantastic night had by all.

     

    DWELLING: ACCORDIA

  • 10/06/09

    Our New Website Has Landed

    Is Landscape Architecture a relevant, rewarding and creative profession?

    In remodelling our website we wanted to project our view that Landscape Architecture is all of this and more. The work reflected in this website is the product of many years’ hard work and evolution of the Grant Associates approach.

    In the process we have been immensely fortunate to have worked on a number of exceptional projects with the very best clients and design teams. In the last year we have enjoyed association with the Stirling Prize winning scheme of Accordia and have increased our international profile through the amazing Gardens by the Bay project in Singapore. 

    We hope everyone who explores this site can see that we love what we do and we want to do more. Bring on the future!

     

    Andrew Grant
    Director

     

  • 10/06/09

    Upcoming Events

    Andrew Grant has been invited to speak at the DATUM KL 2009 Architecture Conference in Kuala Lumpur on 2nd July, and also at the 46th IFLA World Congress in Rio de Janeiro in October 2009.

    Andrew Grant has also been invited to be a judge for the prestigious President’s Design Award 2009 in Singapore.

    Grant Associates are jointly publishing a book ‘Dwelling Accordia’ with the Stirling Prize winning team of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Maccreanor Lavington Architects and Alison Brooks Architects. Book launch due on 8th July 2009.

     

  • 27/05/09

    Gardens By The Bay Update

    The Gardens' site preparatory work commenced with the closure of the Marina City Park on 1 June 2007.  Soil improvement works are near completion and the infrastructure packages, beginning with the construction of the drainage system and the lake, as well as the main access roads and services, are progressing on target. Piling works for the Supertrees and the Conservatories have also been completed.  Phase 1 of the Gardens is scheduled to open in 2011.

    Grant Associates now has a full time team of 4 landscape architects and 2 architects based at the project’s on-site Staging Office.

    For further news and updates click here for the official Gardens by the Bay website.

    Gardens By The Bay Update