Visit this section for regular updates from our studios - significant new commissions and project progress, new starting staff, promotions and sources of recent inspiration.
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27.02.2013
Our delegate Jon Eachus would like to meet other forward thinking and dynamic design professionals; architects, planners, developers, contractors and funders. If you would like to arrange a meeting in Cannes between 12 – 14 March please email jeachus@colour-udl.com or call +44 (0)7946 48 39 48. Continue Reading
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06.02.2013
Amanda (Mandy) is a chartered Landscape Architect, with over five years’ experience having worked on a variety of projects across a wide range of different scales and sectors including city wide strategic masterplanning, education, parks and public space and residential schemes. Mandy played an integral role in the redesign of Fordham Park and the New Cross underpass in South East London which was recently nominated for a Landscape Institute award. Continue Reading
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03.01.2013
We would like to share some feedback from Chris Parsons Director of Estates and Facilities Management, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Continue Reading
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03.01.2013
The Practice is very pleased to announce that Cherry Tian has been successful with her landscape architects' professional practice examinations and is now a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (CMLI). Continue Reading
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29.11.2012
The BIM Academy team which included Colour-UDL has WON the TOP AWARD in BUILD QATAR LIVE 2012 – A WORLDWIDE 48hr BIM design competition. Continue Reading
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29.11.2012
Colour UDL’s environmentally sensitive and inspiring learning space proposals laid the foundations for a successful ITT bid with Wates, A Studio Architects, Arup and Curtins Consulting.
The sample scheme at Waldegrave Girls School required a design to unlock difficult phasing and landscape planning constraints on a tight urban site with existing buildings and service constraints. Continue Reading
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11.10.2012
We are delighted to announce Justine Gray has joined the practice. Justine is working from the Newcastle studio as CAD Manager. She is an Autodesk Certified Associate which demonstrates her advanced competence in AutoCAD. Justine’s role includes establishing new higher level CAD standards and implementing the practice BIM development plan through our REVIT and Eaglepoint platform. Continue Reading
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09.10.2012
Introducing the potential synergy between Green Infrastructure and Garden City thinking with Colour project experience. Peter Owens will be speaking this evening at the Urban Design Group - 6:30pm 75 Cowcross Street, Farringdon, London Continue Reading
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02.10.2012
Colour UDL’s integrated and inspiring design approach laid the foundations for the successful bid with Shepherd, FaulknerBrowns Architects and Boro Happold.
Work will begin on site in November on the largest new build and refurbished school building project announced on the current northern Academies Framework Continue Reading
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27.09.2012
Living architecture on the piers of the old London Chatham and Dover Railway bridge at Blackfriars. Continue Reading
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27.09.2012
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12.06.2012
The success of the 4th Academy win for Colour UDL with Shepherds Construction at Nuneaton Academy has been quickly followed up with delivering an environmental transformation for the local community. Continue Reading
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12.06.2012
University Technical College bid success.
Colour UDL supported the successful Shepherd Construction bid for the new Daventry UTC. This represents an 100% success at ITT stage making our fourth scheme to now progressing through to Planning and onwards to Financial Close with Shepherd Construction. The newly formed UTC, whose main sponsors are Moulton College and the University of Northampton, will be a place for young people to learn and commit to a career in “sustainable and related new technologies” and is set to be funded with a £9 million programme of works from the Education Funding Agency with opening scheduled for September 2013. Continue Reading
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12.06.2012
University Technical College bid success.
Congratulations to Shepherd Construction for leading a successful bid on The Nuneaton Academy, Colour UDL are pleased to support the winning bid and we are looking forward to developing the landscape proposals with the academy through Select Panel Member stage. Our approach to creating a green masterplan that offers a clear and legible academy campus by clearing the central building and forming a ‘Square & Park’ landscape at the heart of the school site. The main entrance route initiates a ‘street’ spine that runs through the entire campus bordering the central square and eventually terminating at the new build house block entrance with a series of house gardens. Continue Reading
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12.12.2011
The Practice is very pleased to announce that Ms Yukako ( Yuka ) Takanashi and Mr Richard Stefanidis have been successful with their landscape architects' professional practice examinations Continue Reading
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05.12.2011
Colour-UDL’s as part of the Shepherd Construction team are pleased announce we have been shortlisted to submit an ITT for The Nuneaton Academy. Bids go in on the 6th December 2011. Continue Reading
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05.12.2011
Colour-UDL’s success in the education sector continues, assisting Shepherd Construction secure selected panel team member for the next two academy developments in Lincolnshire through the Partnership for Schools (PfS) framework. This follows our successful PITT and ITT bids with Faulkner Brown Architects and Buro Happold engineering consultants. Continue Reading
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21.11.2011
We are pleased to announce that the Roseberry Park project recently gained a Gold Award at the RIBA Northern Network Awards 2011 and also received the Hadrian Award for North East Project of the Year. Continue Reading
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28.09.2011
We are proud to announce that 3 members of the Colour team - Chris, Steve and Emma have recently successfully completed the Great North Run. Continue Reading
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28.09.2011
Sharon McKay joined the practice in August 2011 as Senior Landscape Architect, bringing over six years professional experience of working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary environment. Continue Reading
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16.05.2011
Colour urban design are proud sponsors of AC Milan, supporting the EuroChampsChallenge Continue Reading
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19.01.2011
Yukako Takanashi, Urban Designer has recently presented a lecture to the Shinjuku Local Government in Central Tokyo and Tokyo Research Institute at Keio University on the Regeneration of the North East in the 21st century, focusing on participative design workshops and looking at the areas along the River Tyne. Continue Reading
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07.12.2010
It has been a long process, but six years on from the initial concept sketch the design for the new £400 million “super hospital” in Stoke-on-Trent is soon to be fully realised. Continue Reading
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24.11.2010
It’s been an upbeat Autumn for Colour with the new London office proving popular with both existing and new clients and contacts. A similar mood is emerging from conversations with many of our partners across the sectors expressing their desire to “roll up our sleeves up and get on with it”, and “an opportunity to do things differently” with consultants that can deliver clever landscapes. Continue Reading
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16.11.2010
With an intriguing social history and architectural pedigree Bolam Coyne, within the Byker Estate, is set to captivate residents once again with leading thinking in sustainable specification and social spaces that respond to contemporary lifestyles designed by colour : urban design limited. Continue Reading
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16.11.2010
In recognition of his work within the field of urban design including 55 Degrees North in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Peter Owens has accepted an invitation from the Trustees of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) to become a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRSA). Continue Reading
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20.08.2010
Colour : urban design limited are delighted to announce the opening of their new London office on Euston Street close to Euston station. Continue Reading
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30.03.2010
Learning through Landscapes - Designs for Learning Conference 23.03.2010 Continue Reading
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24.06.2009
13 Pathfinder play schemes throughout Sunderland and Washington. Continue Reading
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27.04.2009
The shortlist for the British Council for School Environments 2009 Industry Awards has been announced. Continue Reading
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20.01.2009
- How does transforming the external space alter ways in which learning and teaching take place, both outdoors and inside ? Continue Reading
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17.10.2008
colour UDL with Civic Architects have passed the first stage in an international design competition to create world-class public space in Burnley, Lancashire. Continue Reading
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10.09.2008
The project continues apace with Financial Close targeted for Autumn 2008.
Following production of detailed drawings and as the team gear up for projects in the future phases, Jon Eachus shares Colour:Urban Design’s approach to delivering transformational school environments: “listening to school communities is at the heart of our approach. Continue Reading
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10.09.2008
In early 2008, Stage C proposals for this exciting college development gained ‘agreement in principle’ from the Learning and Skills Council. Working in a multi-disciplinary team, including Ryder Architecture and Arup Engineering, Colour-UDL is now involved in the production of Stage D design packages for college site at Westoe and Hebburn, South Tyneside. Continue Reading
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10.09.2008
Usue Ruiz-Arana joined the practice in August 2008 in an Associate position, bringing over eight years experience as a Chartered Landscape Architect. Continue Reading
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21.07.2008
Members of Colour have recently been working in conjunction with Northern Architecture to run a series of workshops with young people developing a design guide for public realm regeneration in Walker. Continue Reading
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23.04.2008
Career opportunities have arisen due to the continued success of our INNOVATIVE approach in expanding Colour : Urban Design Limited with design-led large scale projects across Britain. Continue Reading
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17.04.2008
The portfolio section of our website now includes a 'Design Attitude and Research' section. Continue Reading
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17.04.2008
Colour : urban design limited further honed their attitude to transformational educational design with ground-breaking proposals for St Damians RC Science College, Samuel Laycock School and Ashton Academy in Tameside, east of Manchester. Continue Reading
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15.04.2008
The first phase of a new multi-million pound gateway into Sunderland city centre has been granted planning approval with the £130 million Farringdon Row mixed-use development. Continue Reading
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11.01.2008
On the 21st December 2007, Financial Close was announced for Jarrow and Mortimer secondary schools – the first two projects of the £200 million+, 5-year South Tyneside and Gateshead Building Schools for the Future programme. Continue Reading
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19.10.2007
Gordon Brown outlined his vision for the future as he took over as Prime Minister in the Summer. Brown said housing would be a priority and that, unlike in previous decades; owning property would not be for the few. He said: "By building new eco-towns and villages we will show Labour on the side of aspiration, that new housing can respect our environment too, and that by involving and engaging the British people in a national debate about the future of housing, we can make affordable housing for all one of the great causes of our time." Continue Reading
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19.10.2007
Working collaboratively with Ryders architects, the scheme has responded to its sensitive Green Belt location and created a fully integrated masterplan of buildings and external spaces of educational value. Completion is due January 2009 Continue Reading
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19.10.2007
Peter Owens, managing director of ColourUDL, was posed the following question by Architect’s Choice magazine: Continue Reading
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19.10.2007
First success from the recent Colour-UDL tour of Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai has been the public realm and landscape strategy for a mixed-use development in Ordos, Northern Mongolia. Options have been developed in collaboration with Beijing architects Yehe Renwen Continue Reading
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19.10.2007
This decision marks a two out of three success rate with PFI schools bidding between ColourUDL and Carillion plc.
October 2007 Continue Reading
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14.09.2007
International Lecture on 'Landscape Urbanism' to be given by Peter Owens of Colour:UDL, South East University, Nanjing, China. 20-09-2007 7:00pm. Continue Reading
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14.09.2007
International Lecture on 'Landscape Urbanism' to be given by Peter Owens of Colour:UDL,
Tsinghua University, Beijing.
19-09-2007 1.30pm. Continue Reading
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14.09.2007
Following a string of prominent project wins, one of the UK’s foremost landscape and urban design practices, Colour: Urban Design Limited (UDL) has announced a strategic appointment to its team. Continue Reading
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12.06.2007
On 7 June 2007 and in line with officers’ recommendation and the support of Regional Development Agency One Northeast, Stockton Borough Council granted planning approval to the Wynyard International Golf Resort Spa Hotel, Wynyard, Cleveland. Continue Reading
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12.06.2007
Following a selection programme undertaken by healthcare specialists, MAAP Architects, Colour-UDL have been appointed to work with Laing O’Rourke on this project. Building 24 is a Procure 21 scheme that delivers new PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care) and LD (Learning Disabilities) accommodation and treatment facilities Continue Reading
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29.05.2007
Colour: Urban Design Limited have recently been appointed as landscape architect for the development of a new International education centre at Newcastle University. The scheme is a joint venture between Newcastle University and INTO University Partnerships Continue Reading
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29.05.2007
Colour: Urban Design Limited have successfully bid to be selected as landscape architect for the construction of a new research building at Newcastle University. Working alongside architects FaulknerBrowns and engineers Cundall, Colour-UDL will be involved in the design of a new development Continue Reading
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29.05.2007
Construction work has begun on-site for the public realm refurbishment of Prudhoe Town centre in Northumberland. Continue Reading
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25.05.2007
In response to the government's surprise announcement that it would aim for zero-carbon in all new homes, Housing Minister Yvette Cooper led a delegation to Sweden and the Netherlands to see what other Europeans were already doing. Here Cooper saw that Continue Reading
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08.05.2007
Colour-UDL is pleased to announce the opening in May 2007 of the recently completed Swansfield Park in Alnwick, Northumberland. Continue Reading
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03.05.2007
New photographs of completed projects have recently been added to the portfolio area of the website. These include new images from Colour - UDL’s current collaboration with architectural photographer Sally Ann Norman. Continue Reading
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03.05.2007
As part of the Arts Council North East’s Artist placement programme, Harry Watton, a Newcastle based painter and recent Fine Art graduate of Northumbria University, is working as artist in residence with colour : urban design limited on a number of projects. Continue Reading
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16.02.2007
Colour : urban design limited are developing a number of initial ideas for a 1500m (1.5km) long ‘Bench of Love’ in Beijing. Continue Reading
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16.02.2007
The first of a series of visits that have inspired our design team starts here Continue Reading
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14.02.2007
An ecological approach taken to planting design including meadows of species-rich grassland, native woodland and management to enhance local wildlife and contribute to biodiversity action plan targets. Continue Reading
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14.02.2007
Construction has commenced on the Procure 21 multi-storey car park at Tameside Hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester.
Colour-UDL undertook landscape appraisal and design services for the project with design partners Keppie Architects for Balfour Beattie Construction Limited, Sale. Continue Reading
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14.02.2007
After completion of a successful feasibility study for the ODA with project managers Drivers Jonas and elite sports specialists FaulknerBrowns, Colour: UDL is continuing its role on the masterplan of a new whitewater canoe slalom course at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Continue Reading
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14.02.2007
The ecology based landscape design of Colour:UDL has discharged the Landscape Conditions attached to the Granting of Planning permission for the £31m Chill Factor e - the biggest indoor alpine ski complex in Britain, now under construction adjacent to Manchester’s Trafford Centre. Continue Reading
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14.02.2007
2007 commences for Colour : urban design limited on the back of a very strong 2006 which has seen major achievements on many levels as the practice continues to increase its capabilities, resources and track-record of success for clients. Continue Reading
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21.12.2006
Merry Christmas and happy new year from all at colour:udl! Continue Reading
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13.10.2006
Colour-UDL are very pleased to appoint Kenny Fraser, at associate level, to the team. Kenny will be working on the conceptual design and delivery of key projects in the public realm sector. As a Chartered Landscape Architect and Educator with 11 years of professional experience including 6 years as Principal Landscape Architect at RMJM Scotland Ltd where he lead the £14 million Scottish Parliament Building Landscape project from 1999 until completion in 2005. Continue Reading
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13.10.2006
Colour-UDL have recently commenced a collaboration with architectural photographer Sally Ann Norman. The intention is a threefold investigation of our completed work with images. Continue Reading
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13.10.2006
Subsequent to an interview at Peases West Primary School in the Wear Valley in the village of Billy Row, near Crook, Colour-UDL have been appointed as ‘cultural partner’ to work with a researcher from Durham University and the school on a research programme running across the academic year 2006-2007. Pupils, teachers, a parent and Fiona Lockwood of Creative Partnerships interviewed Katja Simma and Peter Owens. Continue Reading
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13.10.2006
Tynedale Council has confirmed the detailed design and construction stages of an exciting public realm project in Prudhoe. Conceptual work has been developed by Colour-UDL with artist Callum Sinclair on a unique artist-led regeneration project that intends to not only dramatically improve the quality of public spaces in Prudhoe, but actually redefine how regeneration can be delivered. Continue Reading
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10.10.2006
Located at the existing waste water treatment works and administrative centre at East Hanningfield, near Chelmsford in Essex, Colour:UDL is preparing landscape design and the visual impact assessment of a new head office for Essex & Suffolk Water. The project aims to consolidate in a single location, staff currently spread around a number of sites in Essex. Continue Reading
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15.09.2006
Colour : urban design limited is delighted to be sponsoring this year’s Public Garden Conference - a fantastic example of collaboration between landscape architects, designers and artists on large scale public realm projects. Continue Reading
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14.09.2006
As featured in the August edition of the Landscape Institute Journal : “Playing with Space” is an initiative from Colour Urban Design Limited – a competition and subsequent exhibition during Architecture Week. The aim was to promote better outdoor space in schools through working on creativity by building confidence and self-esteem in the early years of education. Continue Reading
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30.06.2006
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is moving forward with plans for a new whitewater canoe slalom course at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, which will serve as a host venue for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Continue Reading
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30.06.2006
Life through a lens by children of the North East – an exhibition of photographs raising the importance of outdoor space in early years learning. Public exhibition: Monday 19th to Thursday 22nd June. Continue Reading