“Landscape Architecture is central to our quality of life”. A short film of terra firma’s work in landscape architecture – UK & Internationally. Produced by terra firma with animation & film production by Tom Barnett. Find on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WouKnvPEioI
Arriving in Dubai was always going to be a bit of a cultural shock for a South London boy, glass, steel, concrete and swooping 6 lane highways darting in and out of sky scrapers, it reminded me of a 1950’s Expo I saw as a child from the USA, all super highways and shimmering monuments to the modernist dream of utopia. A book from school with all the images of post war modernism was the start of my interest in Architecture and Urban Design…
After almost 4 months in Dubai I felt it is a good time to document some of my experiences as a Landscape Architect in the United Arab Emirates. Having received an email from my now colleague, Henry Duck, in which he intimated that it would be great to get me on board the Alshamsi Terra Firma team, I thought it would be an ideal opportunity for pastures new and a time for change. I graduated from the University of Gloucestershire with Henry and stayed in…