Join us for a conversation between landscape designer Dan Pearson and architect Mary Duggan to hear about our plans for Lambeth Green, London’s newest landmark public garden and interconnected green spaces.
How often do you think about the ‘public realm’? Not just parks and recreation grounds but the spaces and places in between as we journey around the city. It is impossible to escape the public realm, yet we rarely think of it as a cohesive whole.
In 2024 we hope to begin work on a new public garden on the doorstep of the Museum at the centre of the wider project in partnership with Lambeth Council which will transform 5.3 acres of public realm adjacent to the museum into a series of new parks and interconnected public green spaces.
Codenamed ‘Lambeth Green’, this new landscape has been designed by Dan Pearson Studio and will give local people and volunteers places to garden, and provide essential opportunities to learn about caring form urban green spaces, as well as being a green entrance to the Garden Museum and Lambeth. We’re also working with Transport for London to green the junction at Lambeth Bridge.
At the heart of the landscape, a new horticultural pavilion, designed by Mary Duggan Architects, will be a space for young people and volunteers to learn about gardening. The pavilion will be London’s first building to be made from recycled materials, with walls comprised of reclaimed stone sourced from London-based sites, demonstrating the beauty of re-using materials.
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Dan Pearson
Dan Pearson
Dan Pearson is a British landscape designer, horticulturalist, gardener, and writer. His work is characterised by an innate sensitivity to place, an intuitive and light-handed approach to design, bold and painterly naturalistic plantings and deep-rooted horticultural knowledge.Dan trained in horticulture at RHS Gardens’ Wisley, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Jerusalem Botanical Gardens and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He has been practising as a landscape and garden designer since 1987. He is a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers (FSGD), an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Hon FRIBA) and a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI). Since 2014 he has been a Garden Advisor to the National Trust at Sissinghurst Castle. In 2013 Dan was the subject of an exhibition at The Garden Museum, London, Green Fuse: The Work of Dan Pearson. Dan has designed a number of award-winning show gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show. His 2015 show garden for Chatsworth and Laurent Perrier was awarded a Gold Medal and Best Show Garden. Dan lectures and broadcasts regularly and has written a number of books. For over 20 years he wrote a weekly newspaper gardening column, most recently for The Observer. He now writes his own weekly blog, Dig Delve. In 2022 he was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours.
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Mary Duggan
Mary Duggan
Mary Duggan is currently a member the London Borough of Camden’s Design Review Panel and has served on many other design panels and juries including: London Borough of Lewisham, RIBA Education Committee, RIBA International, National and Regional Awards Panels, London Festival of Architecture, The Stephen Lawrence Prize, The Manser Medal, and the RIBA Bronze Medal.
Prior to establishing Mary Duggan Architects, Mary was a founding a founding director of Duggan Morris Architects co-running the practice from 2004-2017. During her time at Duggan Morris Architects, the practice attained numerous industry awards for design excellence including ten RIBA National and Regional Awards, three Civic Trust Awards, three Nominations for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, The Stephen Lawrence Prize, The Manser Medal and achieved consideration for the RIBA Stirling Prize for three buildings. Mary was nominated for Woman Architect of the Year in 2013.
