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Landscape Implementation
The firm is able to offer a full range landscape services from regional analysis right through to the full spectrum of development. The firm's landscape specialists have experience in working in multidisciplinary teams and are well versed in the development process from design, site supervision and contract management. The firm's capabilities include landscape planning, landscape architecture as well as horticulture specialists with experience in design as well as construction and maintenance in temperate, arid, sub-tropical and tropical climes.
The firm has provides landscape input into major engineering projects working directly with engineering consultants and also provides landscape services to architectural consultants involved in building projects and recreational projects.
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King Abdullah Financial District Implementation, Saudi Arabia
Client: Rayadah Investment Company (RIC) |
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Shankland Cox was commissioned
to prepare final design and tender
documents for a park for the Financial
District. The park was intended to
enhance the location of the Financial
District in the centre of the capital city and
provide space for the integration of the
parts of the site. The park extends over
the highway and provides a centralized
Parking facility for the development. The
two parts of the development are linked
by travelators running under the highway
and the monorail linking all the major
attractors. The wadi is connected to the
park with the use of portals providing
facilities in the form of restaurant/
cafeteria and monorail stations.
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Yuen Long District Park, Hong Kong
Client: New Territories Development Department
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Shankland Cox was appointed to
prepare preliminary landscape design for
the Yuen Long District Park in the North
West New Territories and three areas
of local Open Space. The proposed
site for the park includes the largest of
several small wooded hills to the west
of the market town of Yuen Long. The
site is surrounded by low lying farmland
and fishponds which are currently
being reclaimed for the expansion of
commercial and residential areas of
the town.
The primary purpose of the landscape
plan was to ensure that the levels of the
reclaimed land and road and pedestrian
access routes from the adjacent
development could be successfully
integrated with the proposed park.
Ultimately the park will form the central
feature of the district being the largest
area of traffic free public open space
in Yuen Long. The studies included
a survey of existing trees and an
analysis of site conditions to determine
the opportunities to retain as many
as possible of the already mature
trees in the area. In evolving design
concepts particular attention was given
to pedestrian routes from the park to the
town centre and to nearby residential
areas. The preliminary designs identified
sites for several restaurants, social
centres, an active games area with
changing rooms, a children's zoo and
a walled landscaped garden and lake.
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