The Yellow Room at Fairhurst

Landscape and Urban Design

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Landscape Institute North East 2019 AGM

This April, Emily Russell, Senior Landscape Architect in our Newcastle office, was confirmed as Chair of the Landscape Institute North East (LINE) branch for a second year running. Emily presented this year’s AGM, at which Dan Cook, the CEO of the Landscape Institute attended to give an update from head office. Laura Fogg, Landscape Architect in the Newcastle office, also did a short presentation on our recently completed extension to the Rising Sun Country Park in North Tyneside. A great night was had by all.

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New Moxy hotel openings

Fairhurst are pleased to announce the opening of two Moxy hotels in Glasgow and at Edinburgh Airport. Whilst our Glasgow office have been supporting the client, Vastint, with engineering services including structural, civil, geo-environmental and water, our Newcastle office has provided landscape architecture services on the two above mentioned hotels, as well as many others across the country.

Moxy Edinburgh is located next to the city’s airport and opened in January of this year, the first development as part of a wider masterplan surrounding the airport.  The design approach for the external space includes avenue tree planting along the main approach to the airport with footpath connections linking to public transport provision. Ornamental planting to the hotel frontage includes seasonal pops of colour, referencing the signature lighting of the Moxy signage and brand.

Moxy Glasgow is located in the heart of the city centre, in Glasgow’s Merchant City and opened in November last year. The design offers high quality design using granite paving supplied by Charcon, complementing the hotel and the surrounding Glasgow Collegelands, as well as Cor-ten steel street furniture including planters and seating. Fairhurst will be continuing their work with Vastint and Clark Contracts on upcoming Moxy hotel projects.

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Happy 50th Anniversary!

To celebrate 50 years of the University of Sheffield’s Landscape Department, Landscape50 brings thinkers and leading practitioners from all around the world to discuss “The Future of Landscape Architecture”.

Two of our team members attended the full day conference that was held on 21st of March in Sheffield City Hall. The talks varied from our city streets to topics of world views and conservation, and had many insights on international projects ranging from Chile to Asia and America.  

The Yellow Room would like to thank the department, organisers and speakers. All the presentations were very inspiring and thought-provoking. We will surely be thinking and asking questions for future projects!

Speakers present were:

Richard Weller, Chair of Urbanism and Landscape Architecture and co-director of Ian L. Mcharg Centre at the University of Pennsylvania. His research involves planet-scale planning, particularly the conflict between biodiversity and urban growth.  

Stig Anderson, the founder of SLA Architects and a professor in the University of Copenhagen. He is known for his sensuous and poetic works, combining amenity values based on aesthetics on nature with urban design. 

Nigel Dunnett, a professor in University of Sheffield and a pioneer in innovative approaches to landscape planting, and multi-functional use of vegetation in the built environment.   Twitter: @NigelDunnett 

Thomas Rainer, a landscape architect, teacher, author, and public speaker. His passionate presentations speaks about the importance of ecological landscape design as a landscape architect.  Twitter: @ThomasRainerDC 

Mohan Rao, principal designer in Integrated Design (INDÉ). His expertise includes environmental design, regional planning and landscape architecture focussing on sustainable practices in city and regional planning, disaster management, heritage conservation and master planning.  

Julian Agyeman, professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University. He is the author of ‘Just Sustainabilities’ – an integration of social justice and sustainability.   Twitter: @julianagyeman 

Ceylan Belek Ombregt, a practicing landscape architect in Martha Schwartz Partners. She has led several international projects including award-winning Beqijia Technology Business District in Beijing.

Andrew Grant, founder and director of Grant Associates. He is known for a creative approach to ecological and sustainable landscape design and the integration of landscape with engineering and architecture that responds to the place, ecology, and its people.  Twitter: @AndrewGrantGA 

Teresa Moller, founder of Teresa Moller Landscape Studio. Her works involves careful observation as the key for developing social-culture projects; making nature accessible to people by intervening only when needed. Her minimalistic designs and interventions beautifully reconnect the people with their landscape. 

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What We Do: Masterplanning and Residential Design

The Yellow Room at Fairhurst has an extensive experience and skill base. Our landscape and urban design team creates high quality, cost effective schemes of varying scales and complexity. Fairhurst seeks to create a ‘sense of place’, by evaluating, creating, enhancing, restoring. We incorporate innovative, imaginative designs holistically, balancing functionality, demands of contemporary living and environmental sustainability.  

We have worked with landowners, Local Authorities, and government agencies.  These projects were driven by adding values through environmental, engineering, social, economic, and cultural solutions. Projects include:

The A19 Corridor Masterplan, North Tyneside

Shire Park Tesco HQ, Welwyn Garden City

The Green Corridor Masterplan, Durham

…and many more.

The document covers our design strategies to detailed masterplanning and public realm design that incorporates art and sculpture to create a sense of arrival and place, adding value to the site. We work with a range of public art consultants and artists on behalf of both public and private clients. Our projects range from major infrastructural schemes to pocket parks and gardens. Some of our public realm projects include: 

Sheraton Park Student Accommodation 

Chapelton, Elswick

Acklam Hall

Vigo Lane, Chester-le Street

…and many more.

Read the full statement here.

If you wish to find out more, please contact Emily Russell at [email protected]

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Morcom Road Consultation

Fairhurst are working on behalf of Central Bedfordshire Council to design and deliver greenspace improvements to Morcom Road Flats, Dunstable. Additional to these works, we are proposing to reuse the existing drying areas that are found in each block of flats.

We have proposed several options and would like to hear your feedback on these ideas.

If you would like to provide comment, please complete this short anonymous questionnaire that can help us develop the design at Morcom Road.

Take the survey here.

The deadline for providing feedback via the questionnaire will be 11:45pm on Saturday the 25th of March. Fairhurst and Central Bedfordshire Council will use the feedback received to further the design proposals.

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Morcom Road Consultation

Fairhurst are working on behalf of Central Bedfordshire Council to design and deliver greenspace improvements to Morcom Road Flats, Dunstable. Additional to these works, we are proposing to reuse the existing drying areas that are found in each block of flats.

We have proposed several options and would like to hear your feedback on these ideas.

If you would like to provide comment, please complete this short anonymous questionnaire that can help us develop the design at Morcom Road. 

Take the survey here. 

The deadline for providing feedback via the questionnaire will be 11:45pm on Saturday the 25th of March. Fairhurst and Central Bedfordshire Council will use the feedback received to further the design proposals.

View larger images of the design proposals here.

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Thank you to the University of Sheffield’s Landscape Department and Landmark Team for inviting us to the ‘Meet the Professionals’ event yesterday! It was great to see so many enthusiastic students and to see some familiar faces! We are very excited to see what you produce in your final projects and we look forward to hearing from you regarding job opportunities.

We ask any interested applicant to send in a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and portfolio to [email protected] 

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We’ll be heading down to University of Sheffield tomorrow for Landmark’s ‘Meet the Professionals’ event! We are very excited to meet all the talent the Landscape Department has to offer! We’ll be there from 1pm in the Arts Tower to answer all your questions about The Yellow Room, what we do and our wide range of projects!

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The Yellow Room wishes everyone a Happy New Year! Look forward to working with you all in 2018!

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A9 Site Visit

November 2017

Landscape team undertaking landscape and visual assessment works for the A9 dualling project in Scotland. Job well done in the snowy scenery!

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Landscape Institute Guests and LINE Pre-Christmas event

The Landscape Institute’s Dan (CEO) and Rachel (Head of Business Development) visited The Yellow Room at Fairhurst Newcastle on the 29th of November to hear about the scope of our works and what we have achieved. We are pleased to hear positive feedbacks from their visit to the office.

Later that evening, the team enjoyed the Pre-Christmas event organised by the Landscape Institute North East (LINE) at the Tyneside Cinema. Helvetica was an interesting documentary and would highly recommend all those interested in graphic design to watch it! The film was very informative and may have persuaded us to use Helvetica in our future documents. The social brought an opportunity to meet old and new friends. Everyone at the Yellow Room would like to thank LINE for organising and Dan and Rachel for taking the time to visit us in Newcastle. We would be happy to have them in the office again and look forward to engaging further with the institute.

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Welcome!

A warm welcome to all the new graduates and students at the Newcastle Office! 

Rear (left to right): Josh Chapman (Structures-Technician), Tom Wilde (Ports & Harbours-Graduate Engineer), Ollie Stephenson (Structures-Graduate Engineer), Helen Parkin (Infrastructure-Graduate Engineer). 

 Front (left to right): Nicole Chu(Landscape-Placement), Anne Krippler (Planning-Placement), Sophie Tremblay-Gratton (Landscape-Placement), Naomi King (Landscape-Graduate).

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Sheraton Park Community Garden, Landscape Design

The Yellow Room have been working alongside Alumno Developments and Keir on the Sheraton Park Student Accommodation Scheme, to design the external works and create a community parkland within the heart of the scheme. Emily and Steve attended the event on the 8th September to celebrate the opening of the site and see the finished result.

Our proposals create a framework to exhibit an International Sculpture Garden that reflects the idea of pilgrimage, the original landscape concept a contemporary interpretation of an Edwardian era garden, influenced by the architectural style of the buildings. It incorporates the two main principles of Edwardian landscape design; formal gardens with strong geometry, symmetry and to recreate semi-wild parkland by capturing ‘the romance of the countryside within the confines of the urban and suburban landscape’. The surrounding landscape includes a range of features from formal hedges, grassland areas, ornamental planting beds and retention of existing trees. Fairhurst also helped to coordinate and design the plinths for the artwork and curved seating wall, the focal point within the parkland setting. These were created by local manufacturers Bespoke Concrete.

The Yellow Room are proud to have been a part of this fantastic project over the last 6 years and look forward to working alongside all parties again in the future.

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Craghead Environmental Improvement

The Craghead regeneration scheme was developed by Fairhurst’s Yellow Room studio in close collaboration with the local residents through community engagements and workshops. The masterplan was designed to integrate public open space and artwork within an improved streetscape, providing continuity of materials and boundary treatments as well as creation of newly designated off- street parking.  

Following the environmental improvements, the number of vacant properties within the development has significantly reduced, while house prices have increased, and new housing development has subsequently been ‘built out’ adjacent to the scheme. The success of the scheme was recognised by an RTPI Regional Award.  The project has set a precedent for Durham County Council, who have plans to roll out similar projects within the Stanley area.

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Leeming Bar 

Fairhurst was originally instructed to undertake an LVIA and Outline Landscape Masterplan on an existing A-road service station, to go forward for planning and public inquiry in a bid to be upgraded to becoming an MSA (Motorway Service Area).

The site is currently a motorway service station we were instructed to undertake a detailed transport assessment and a Flood Risk Assessment whilst also creating a master plan. The current scheme looks to retain the Hotel, toilet block, McDonald’s and PFS but are looking to introduce a new purpose amenity building to replace the current manager’s property. We are hoping to create a unique environment that allows visitors, employees and the local community to enjoy this area.

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Marley Hill Planning Approval

The Yellow Room at Fairhurst has been working on behalf of Buckley Burnett to support the planning application for the conversion of the former Marley Hill Primary School site in the Marley Hill Conservation Area, Gateshead. We are pleased to say that the proposal has been granted full planning permission!

 The Yellow Room will continue to work with Buckley Burnett to develop the landscape proposals and prepare a detailed soft landscape design for the site in order to satisfy planning conditions. This has been a great project to work on and we very much look forward to continuing to work alongside Buckley Burnett for Marley Hill and future projects.

Our involvement to date has involved carrying out a site analysis and Landscape and Visual Assessment with Green Belt and Conservation Area commentary of the proposed development and supported the application with a Landscape Masterplan. The housing layout aims to reflect the historic rows of terraces within Marley Hill, with a landscape scheme that enhances the development with a variety of ground cover, ornamental and native planting taking into consideration existing trees and the sensitive setting of the Conservation Area. The proposed planting provides an appropriate level of screening for onlookers whilst retaining key open views into the surrounding wider landscape.