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We are delighted to see the current debate taking place regarding Women in Construction and the Landscape Institute’s reference to the pioneering role that Brenda Colvin played; as a Landscape Architecture practice that was started by a woman, currently has a female director, and READ MORE

Colvin & Moggridge are delighted to be appointed by the London Borough of Havering to design the streetscape for a Low Emissions Neighbourhood (LEN) bid to the Greater London Authority and Transport for London. A Low Emission Neighborhood (LEN) is an area-based scheme that READ MORE

The Capability Brown Design Ideas Competition is a national competition hosted by Natural England and run by the Landscape Institute. Winners were announced at the 2015 LI Awards. 2016 is the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, this READ MORE

Colvin & Moggridge have been appointed by the NHS to work in partnership with BMJ Architects on a number of Framework Agreement projects. The first of these projects is a joint venture involving both University College London (UCL) and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital READ MORE

Planning consent has recently been granted to transform an early 19th century thatched barn, in the grounds of Christ Church, into a new visitor centre. Facilities, housed in contemporary extensions on either side of the barn, will include an interpretation centre with new READ MORE

Selected for display at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition this year is an axonometric drawing by Mark Darwent and Sue Goodman for the multi-species enclosure for spectacled bears, coatimundi and short-clawed otters at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in Jersey. The READ MORE

Colvin & Moggridge has played a vital role in the conversion of Langley Park – an important Palladian mansion house, set in a Capability Brown landscape – into a 5* hotel and spa. First, in 2013, by helping to secure the necessary planning consent and today by READ MORE

Come Spring Little Peacocks, the Gloucestershire practice garden, bursts into bloom. The gardens open to the public once a year as part of the National Gardens Scheme and this year they’ll open Sunday May 3rd. This photograph shows our bulb lawn awash with Anemone blanda, READ MORE

Colvin’s archive, donated by Hal Moggridge back in February 2014, now resides at MERL (the Museum of English Rural Life). MERL is part of the University of Reading and was most recently the location for a talk by Hal Moggridge on the subject of Brenda Colvin. Hal’s talk READ MORE

“Heaven on earth” was how William Morris described his home at Kelmscott Manor. The restoration of this magical cottage garden, led by Colvin & Moggridge, began in the 1990’s.  Now complete, this Country Life feature provides a fascinating insight into the READ MORE