Apr 09
2013Weddles are very proud to have been selected to design the British Garden for the 2014 International Horticultural Expo in Qingdao, China. It will be one of 35 international gardens measuring 1500m2 and will showcase the best of British Gardens. It will be open to the public for 6 months with an expected 10 million visitors. For many of the visitors this will be their first view of a British garden. Read more →
Oct 12
2012On their recent 2 week visit to China in September, Mike and Lu visited four Weddle projects that are currently being built on site: One in Qingdao, two in Shanghai and one in Chenzhou. Read more →
Oct 10
2012The new student residences “Christina Miller Hall” at the Heriot-Watt Riccarton Campus have now been completed. The building offering 270 high specification bedrooms to students of the university is framed by a stylish and modern landscape which complements the clean lines of the building. Read more →
Jul 18
2012Heriot-Watt University is today celebrating a prestigious award for its green campus. It has become the first Scottish university to receive a Green Flag Award.
Landscape Architects Weddle Landscape Design have been advising the university on landscape management since 1968, and helped make the successful Green Flag Award submission. Read more →
Jul 15
2012Broomhill Infant School in Sheffield has started to create the nature garden designed by Chartered Landscape Architect Lu Zhong.
Lu’s competition winning design was created with help from all her colleagues at Weddle Landscape Design, and combines a wide variety of sensory experiences within a tiny area. The children will be allowed to touch, feel, smell and get close to this beautiful garden.
Lu’s son Christopher helped with the planting. Read more →
Jun 16
2012Congratulations to Lu Zhong who has just passed her Pathway to Chartership. She brings Weddles total qualified Landscape Architects to five. Read more →
Apr 17
2012We are preparing a concept design for a massive 17ha mixed use development site in Chenzhou, Hunan province, China. The site will provide 4500 new apartments, european style gardens and a shopping mall all within the new city centre of this rapidly growing city. Its rare to find such a huge empty site at the heart of a city; it was previously a military car factory and test track. Read more →
Mar 12
2012In 2014 the City of Qingdao, Shangdong, China, will host the World Horticultural Expo. Weddles have been involved with the design of the main Plant Pavilion.
We suggested a low energy temperate environment and this was well received by the client team – Weddles are now completing the Concept Design Stage. Read more →
Feb 24
2012Competition success! Weddles were asked to take part in a Landscape Masterplanning and Urban Design competition for the Xiaoyan River in Suining, Jiangsu, China. Read more →
Jan 15
2012Pizhou, Jiangsu, China is currently developing its 20 Year City Masterplan . The city has aspirations to be included as a National Landscape City – to achieve this a number of criteria must be met during the Masterplanning process. Weddles were asked to prepare a City Greenspace Masterplan which will form part of the larger planning document. Read more →