Lampworks

Client: Cordia UK

With BPN Architects

Technical design with Define Planning and Design

[2025]

A landscape concept for a large residential development in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. Currently in technical design stage.

Isherwood Sutcliffe’s grave in nearby Warstone Cemetery is a strange Victorian tree-stump monument with climbing ivy and ferns. This became an influence for a softer shaded landscape of woodland pathways and glades [perhaps before industrialisation took over], creeping over, through and around cracked courtyard surfaces influence by the craquelure in an Isherwood japanned tray.

A series of habitats aim to maximise biodiversity, whilst past industries in and around the site are reflected in colours, materials, planting, furniture elements and artwork integration.