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| Atkins honoured with landscape industry award  Judges at this year's Landscape Institute Awards have honoured a design to improve the streetscape of Clerkenwell, one of London's most vibrant areas. The specialist public realm team from Atkins, Europe's biggest design and engineering consultancy, has come up with a solution to make the area work better for visitors, businesses and residents alike. In a joint project with the London Borough of Islington, the Atkins team created a design that should remove rat-runs, improve facilities for cyclists and provide an attractive, universally accessible and sustainable environment for all.The area has been reinvented as a highly attractive evening and weekend destination, packed with character, charm and amenities, but its road layout has been unchanged for centuries. With the amount of visitors to the area set to increase due to the new Thameslink and Crossrail facilities at Farringdon Station, there is a desperate need to do something more to improve the pedestrian environment. 'Clerkenwell Village Renaissance', funded by Transport for London, should create a sensitive and imaginative, well-researched solution both to the practical and aesthetic needs of the area and its heritage. It delivers robust fundable options for more green space, high quality public space, less street clutter and includes concepts for the celebration of the rich local history by creating settings for future public art. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |