Portfolio 2011

Selected Projects

Sir Bobby Robson GardenNewcastle

St Nicholas SquareNewcastle

57 QuaysideNewcastle

Central Station PlanterNewcastle

Newcastle Great ParkNewcastle

Sunniside GardensSunderland

Newcastle City LibraryNewcastle

The MeadowsDurham

Metro CentreGateshead

Northumbria UniversityNewcastle

CoathamRedcar

Bilbao GardensBilbao, Spain

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Robinson Landscape Design

RLD is an experienced design practice with a young and dynamic team of individuals. We are dedicated to combining good environmental planning with excellent and contemporary landscape design, presented in a graphically distinctive way. The practice is led by Tom Robinson, a chartered landscape architect with over thirty years experience in the development of landscape and environmental design solutions in the UK, Europe and the Far East.

We have deliberately brought together a workforce,motivated by a shared belief in a simple design philosophy:• We take mere areas and turn them into spaces and places;• We do that in a way that can resolve competing functions;• We do that by good design that comes from an understanding of our client’s needs and the site’s capacities;• We do this and create value for our clients.

As specialists in the many facets of landscape architecture, we offer a distinctive, problem solving approach to every stage of a project: site appraisal; masterplanning; impact assessment; planning negotiation; design; management; and advocacy

Creative flair, enthusiasm and intellectual rigour are used to realise the potential that each site and project has to make distinctive spaces that are functional yet full of character.

At RLD we like to think of ourselves as innovative, highly professional, adaptable, diligent and dependable. We believe in what we do and we enjoy doing it. We are a people based design practice that thrives in an environment of challenge and problem solving. If you are looking for the best of contemporary design, inspired by the best examples the world over, then we have what you are looking for.

Tom RobinsonDirector.

Capabilities

We offer in part or as a whole the following services:• Site finding and appraisal• Masterplanning• Environmental impact assessment• Urban design• Landscape design• Habitat and ecological design• Planning negotiation• Public presentation, advocacy and expert witness• Visualisations• Management

Sectors

These services we undertake in most of the private sector and public sector areas requiring landscape architecture, including:• Housing• Education• Business, office and retail developments• Urban design and regeneration• Transport infrastructure• Leisure• Parks• Gardens• Visualisation

Awards

The Landscape Institute Highly Commended 2007RICS Renaissance Awards Winner 2008RTPI Regional Awards Commendation 2008Hadrian Award Commendation 2009Lord Mayors Design Awards Commendation 2009

Competitions

Sunniside Gardens Winner 2005Bilbao Internacional de Jardines 2007Newcastle Central Library 2007Pennine Landscape Squared 2009

Urban Design and RegenerationSir Bobby Robson GardenNewcastle

Urban Design and RegenerationSt Nicholas SquareNewcastle

Urban Design and Regeneration57 QuaysideNewcastle

Urban Design and RegenerationCentral Station PlanterNewcastle

HousingNewcastle Great ParkNewcastle

Urban Design and RegenerationSunniside GardensSunderland

Urban Design and RegenerationNewcastle Central LibraryNewcastle

HousingThe MeadowsDurham

Business, Office and Retail DevelopmentsBelow: Marks and Spencer GatesheadRight: Metro Centre Gateshead

EducationNorthumbria University

Newcastle

Urban Design and RegenerationCoathamRedcar

HousingNewcastle Great ParkNewcastle

International Garden DesignBilbao Internacional de JardinesBilbao, Spain

Robinson Landscape Design Ltd Cathedral BuildingsDean StreetNewcastle upon Tyne NE1 1PGTel: 0191 230 4339Fax: 0191 230 5509info@robinsonlandscapedesign.co.ukwww.robinsonlandscapedesign.co.uk