as promised to those left in London, here is a bit of blogging about what we are doing here in Lille. 25 students from the 3rd year landscape architecture BA and Masters programmes have come to Lille to work with 18 students from their university.
We have been given a canalside site to create a scheme for and so far...
we arrive on Sunday at 3pm (well, not everyone, someone got on the train to Paris...) and went straight to the site. This involved a rather long walk (an hour?) in the snow, in -10 degrees. We walked round for around an hour or so to get a feel of it, see the level changes (important on this site) and the overall context. We then spent another hour trying to find a cafe open on a Sunday to warm up!
Very good hot chocolate brought a smile back.
The city was more likeable than I expected - with a lovely mixture of materials and architecture, lots of brickwork and coloured tiles and an interesting history. We also walked through an interesting Giles Clement park near to the station, which had held its structure through the winter months well and gave some inspiration for planting schemes.
After a couple of people walking off with the wrong suitcases and some concerns with there being too many students compared with Lille student's sofas available, most got to bed by midnight....some drinking was had..
We have been given a canalside site to create a scheme for and so far...
we arrive on Sunday at 3pm (well, not everyone, someone got on the train to Paris...) and went straight to the site. This involved a rather long walk (an hour?) in the snow, in -10 degrees. We walked round for around an hour or so to get a feel of it, see the level changes (important on this site) and the overall context. We then spent another hour trying to find a cafe open on a Sunday to warm up!
Very good hot chocolate brought a smile back.
The city was more likeable than I expected - with a lovely mixture of materials and architecture, lots of brickwork and coloured tiles and an interesting history. We also walked through an interesting Giles Clement park near to the station, which had held its structure through the winter months well and gave some inspiration for planting schemes.
After a couple of people walking off with the wrong suitcases and some concerns with there being too many students compared with Lille student's sofas available, most got to bed by midnight....some drinking was had..
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