Public & Private Realm Datasheet

CapabilityStatement PRIVATE ANDPUBLIC REALM Great design is efficient, affordable, sustainable, inclusive and beautiful. Nowhere is it more important than in our public spaces – our parks, streets and squares – where so many people’s lives intersect. The reality is that our everyday environment has an enormous bearing on how we, as individuals and communities, feel and behave and the choices we make. We work at every scale to design high quality, contextual public – and private - spaces. We identify the strengths and potential of existing spaces, renewing and transforming them into attractive places where people are proud to live and work. We also create new spaces, adding inherent aesthetic and economic value and encouraging new investment.Our expertise includes the design of parks and green spaces, streets, squares, seafronts, waterfronts, campuses, courtyards and roof gardens and ranges from modest but beautifully designed projects to some of the most complex and high profile commissions imaginable - projects as different as the Olympic Parklands and Public Realm for London 2012, a re-imagining of Blackpool’s seafront and the reinvigoration of the Battersea Power Station site.Successfully delivering such projects requires a particular blend of skills. We have those skills in abundance but we don’t take them for granted and we continually invest in research and training to ensure that we remain leaders in this very important area of work.