The ‘Making Space in Dalston’ public space programme, which includes the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, has been awarded the 2011 Landscape Institute’s President’s award.
Here’s what the Institute said: “J&L Gibbons, in collaboration with muf architecture/art, were recognised for successfully creating better quality public space whilst “avoiding neighbourhood sanitisation”. The judges said; “This is a strikingly graceful approach to understanding an area, and sets a model for how it should be done.” By resisting the traditional ‘top-down’ approach the practice chose instead to work very closely with local residents, businesses and organisations to develop a shared vision for regeneration. The judges added; “The landscape architects encouraged local partners to take ownership of the projects.”
