Yip I know what you mean Mitti, here's the same picture in perspective:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7310211.stm

By the way please make sure to credit photo's & text as its a public forum and so people can find the stuff.

I have been trying to get my head around all the various players in this whole project & have made a list which helps me start to understand the structure. Hopefully useful to you. I have copied text from Mitty and Tam's reports to help too:

Client:

bought by Ealing Council in 1997 (Formerly Kensington & Chelsea playing fields)

 Competition stage design team and Consultation ‘overseers’

as proposed by
competition winner Art2Architecture in 2000, became Form Associates
(Consisting of (Artist) Landscape Architect Peter Fink and Architect Igor Marko)

 ["In the period from 2000-2002, FoRM Associates carried out an extensive

community program [sic] involving several thousands of people, participating and
contributing to masterplan the development." ELA 09/2011; "thousands of residents
involved in consultation" Peter Fink in Green Places, 02/2007]

 Construction stage design team

LDA (they took over from Form Ass’. Form Ass’ were sacked in 2006. Still lead by Peter Fink according to ‘London Garden Trust’  http://www.londongardenstrust.org/index.htm?features/northala.htm

 Engineering

Techniker/ Peter Brett Assoc.

Paul McKenzie ACinstCES survey director of McKenzie Geospatial Surveys undertook the leading role in the geospatial engineering of the park.

are these linked to the previous companies on the above line?

‘He (Paul) was first involved in the project at contract tender stage with the company CJ Pryor (contract) ltd in 2002.’

 Ecologist

Peter Neal Associates

 Project Manager

EDAW

 Contractors

Civils contractor CJ Pryor  and Landscape contractor CR Swift

 ‘He (Paul) was first involved in the project at contract tender stage with the company CJ Pryor (contract) ltd in 2002.’

‘From listening to Paul it is clear that the job was not simple in anyway, he says “the construction of the conical mounds was a challenge.” The material, as it was being placed progressively to the top of each mound would create boulders that rolled down the 1in3 gradient slopes and would then destroy the site batterails which radiated out from the centre. This required constant rechecking and engineering from both Paul and the rest of the team.’

 

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Here is Tam's NB email from the last meeting:

Notes of/actions from our meeting on Friday:

1. We have 8 weeks until hand in of the report on 11 March; we don't know when the presentation will be scheduled.

2. We discussed producing a diagram of how we are breaking down work - to be completed.

3. We agreed that we would focus first on Part 1 of the brief: summary of the project and design team

4. ACTION - All to continue to research project & design team; agreed that we would each look at this from the point of view of one of the design team members:
- Matt - Ecologist (Peter Neal Associates)

- Kevin - Contractor (CR Swift/CJ Pryor)

- Tam - Consultation (Art4Space/ Northolt Extended Schools Project/ Ealing Council)

- Mitti - Engineering (Techniker/ Peter Brett Assoc.)

- Elena - Competition stage design team (Form Assoc. (known as Art2Architecture at the time)

- Valentinos - Client (Ealing Council)

- Victor - (after discussion on the train into London) Construction stage design team (LDA)

- Cristina - that leaves Project Manager (EDAW). If you want to swap, let us know as soon as possible

and write a one page summary of the project from that team member's viewpoint by Fri 1st Feb. Cover all relevant bullet points under (1) in the brief.

5. Also start to list questions for next stage of research, including talking to team members.

6. Next meeting: 2pm Friday 1st February.

We didn't discuss:

- Visiting the site?

- Does anyone have any contacts at any of the firms listed above?

Let me know if I've missed anything or got anything wrong...

Regards

Tam

 

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On the 2nd last point - lets visit the site - when are people availible?