The Irish Landscape Institute Education programme restarts this month with a presentation from LDA Design on the development of the London Olympic Parklands. Neil Mattinson will give an account of the development of the park before and after the Olympics and the transformation of one of the most contaminated brownfield sites in London into a stunning new park.
The lecture is free for ILI members and students, €5 for non members. All are welcome, but places are limited – Please RSVP to ili@irishlandscapeinstitute.com to reserve your seat.
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Olympic Park is the largest new urban park in London since the Victorian era, designed to host hundreds of thousands of visitors during the Games, and to act as a catalyst for regeneration in East London. The shape of the site naturally divides the park into a wilder northern half and a more urban southern half, connected by five kilometres of improved river banks. The previously canalised River Lee has been transformed into a three dimensional mosaic of wetland, swales, wet woodland, dry woodland and meadow.
After the Games: A permanent legacy of 102 hectares of metropolitan open land is being created, with temporary structures and areas of concourse removed to make way for permanent parkland. Over four thousand semi-mature trees will be planted setting the scene for the creation of 45 hectares of new habitat, while over a quarter of a million wetland plants will be planted in the improved water courses.
For more information on this lecture and other forthcoming ILI events please see website.
