The green spaces design project‘ Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park’ which formed part of the hub of the 2012 Olympic Games in London has won the IX Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize, in collaboration with Banco Sabadell, at the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture organised by Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Cataluña.
Hangreaves Associates carried out the design of more than 100 hectares of land known as the “Greenest games” in history. This park is now the largest park in Europe for more than 150 years, with a design that synthesises centuries of traditional British landscaping and the reality of the post-industrial brownfields (industrial land which has been abandoned). Furthermore, it adds to and combines developments in sustainability with the objective of creating a new type of park for the XXI century.
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