RaeburnFarquharBowen Landscape Architecture & Urban Design

Queens Cross Housing Association Cross Housing Association GALA DAY going like a fair! Music, food, rides, Disney princesses, & Mackenzie Construction who are contractors for woodside making places phase 1 have the Glasgow Warriors here! We have the plans for phase 2 landscape improvements coming soon so come along for a chat!

The University of Stirling active travel boulevard is in construction! Using a new construction method at the University, Geoweb layers ensure existing mature trees will continue to thrive. This project is a key addition to the University of Stirling masterplan. It will connect recent RFB projects, Campus Central and the Sports Facility, with a widened accessible shared footpath and cycle route. The new route nestles beneath mature existing trees, easing steep gradients. New viewpoints looking over Airthrey Loch provide seating areas to pause and rest, capturing views of the University’s stunning designed landscape. AtkinsRéalis, Hunter Construction (Aberdeen) Limited, Brownriggs, Woolgar Hunter Engineers, cdmm (UK) Ltd. #landscapearchitecture #landarch #activetravel #cycling #sharedspace #sustainabledesign #accessibledesign

Mobility scooters, Motorbikes & Mountain bikes (all bikes)! are all catered for in Phase 1 of Woodside, Glasgow installed by Mackenzie Construction as part of the Sustrans Places for Everyone project for Queens Cross Housing Association. This will support more active travel and getting around more easily with a variety of storage to suit differing needs. From a starting point of a total of 15 uncovered cycle stands servicing around 2,000 residents, the project has now provided: 10 mobility scooter secure lockers 5 motorbike spaces in covered shelters 12 cycle spaces in uncovered stands 10 cycle spaces in covered shelters 4 cycle lockers ........and 135 cycle spaces within secure locked stores! Get on your bike / scooter / motorbike!

Here at RaeburnFarquharBowen Landscape Architecture & Urban Design we were privileged to work on this with the brilliant Pauline Fletcher as our client - she had a knack for finding extra funding & pushed the project ambitions with us to achieve more for the residents & community she serves. This was also a National Building with Nature award 🏆 recipient demonstrating excellence in green infrastructure. This could be a template - demonstrating urban renewal that helps communities to be more resilient, climate adapted, enhances biodiversity for wildlife, supports more active travel, & are playful & pleasant places to be….. Get in touch if you’d like us to support your ambitions for transforming neighbourhoods!

We are proud to have contributed to the 38,728km walked with Women in Property . Despite some poor weather, #TeamRFB took it in our stride, covering Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling in our walks.

We developed the #Biodiversity Action Plan for our client at the University of Stirling a few years ago. Walking around yesterday evening, it's lovely to see such a rich habitat for wildlife with expansive meadows with mown grass edges, and a generous ecotone of habitats - dry meadow, wet meadow, wetlands and Loch. Hundreds of tiny frogs crossing the path, a family of swans and signets, a hare, and various wildfowl spotted demonstrate this is very much a place for wildlife and people to thrive. Fantastic work by the estates team 👏

We hope those attending the Woodside Nursery fundraiser fun day on Saturday get a chance to snap up one of the house plants we have donated - perfect for an empty windowsill. It is wonderful seeing how the Woodside Making Places project is evolving week by week and we have enjoyed building relationships with the community that will be using it. Queens Cross Housing Association Mackenzie Construction #landscapearchitecture #landarch #urbandesign #placemaking #plantlovers #urbangardening #community

Campus Central at the University of Stirling looking glorious in the evening sun, lovely to see the space filled with happy faces after an evening event. #landscapearchitecture #landarch #design #stirling  #universityofstirling

Yesterday we paid a visit to the Edinburgh College of Art Graduation Show. It’s an exciting opportunity to see the curation of everyone’s hard work over the last year, would highly recommend a visit - especially the landscape architecture exhibits! #ECAGraduateShow #EdinburghCollegeofArt #landscapearchitecture #landarch #urbandesign