BCA Landscape

The Problem Prior to the implementation of the Connectivity Scheme, the environment on the Strand was of a very poor quality, often prone to flooding and traffic congestion. It was a key busy arterial vehicle route, that severed the link between the City Centre Retail and office district from the iconic waterfront. Traffic noise, air […]

On 22 May 2017, 22 people – concertgoers and their loved ones waiting for them at Manchester Arena – had their lives taken in a terrorist atrocity. Many others sustained physical or mental injuries, some life-changing. The Glade of Light has been created as a memorial garden. It’s a place to reflect, to remember and […]

The Pop-Up Forest Bathing Pod is a temporary demountable and reusable urban intervention that brings the Forest in to the heart of our hard-edged cities. It demonstrates the power of nature and reminds us how important it is to catch our breath and find a moment of calm in our busy lives. The Pod creates […]

  “Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotional development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.” – Can We Play? by David Elkind Most […]