LUDWIG TEWKSBURY
Ludwig is a highly experienced landscape architect (CMLI) and urban designer (MUDD) who specialises in public space design and delivery. His experience also includes private landscapes, master planning and major project design review. An award winning ‘place shaper and maker’, Ludwig has delivered innovative green infrastructure and iconic street furniture solutions in historic and highly regulated public environments.
BRINGING PLACES TO LIFE
LUDWIG IS A PLACEMAKER
Landscape animation is at the heart of placemaking because it sets the stage for resident and visitor enjoyment and consequently the commercial success of each place.
Innovative green infrastructure, street furniture, alfresco dining, biodiversity, and public art initiatives can re-define and re-invigorate a town or city, reflecting the present-day character, helping to heal the collective wounds of the past. For new developments place making is key to ensuring places continue to be successful in the future by delighting and supporting residents and visitors enabling a strong sense of ownership and consequently guardianship.
IMAGE CREDIT
PLACE SHAPING AND MAKING AT THE QUADRANT, LONDON
Glasshouse Street Boulevard of Trees
As part of the broader Regent Street Estate improvement program, Ludwig consulted to SNC Lavalin Atkins as public realm curator for The Crown Estate who were partnering with Westminster City Council to deliver this project. Planters manufactured by Creactive Design.
ADDRESSING PLACE STRUCTURE
LUDWIG IS A PLACE SHAPER
Collaboration is at the heart of place shaping because Place is inherently multi-functional with many different actors and stakeholders. In many public places outdated approaches to spatial planning have resulted in dysfunctional environments plagued by congestion, pollution, low perceptions of safety, poor biodiversity outcomes and the dominance of transport infrastructure.
Creative solutions to place re-shaping address the core issues at each place, reflecting the aspirations of all stakeholders. Anticipating future pressures builds resilience into new places.
IMAGE CREDIT
Oxford Circus diagonal crossing and London Underground forecourt
As part of the Oxford, Regent and Bond Street (ORB) Action Plan, Ludwig worked for Atkins (now SNC Lavalin Atkins) with The Crown Estate, Transport for London and Westminster City Council to deliver this project.
Photo: Krists Luhaers, 2018
PLACE SHAPING AT OXFORD CIRCUS, LONDON
LONDON’S BUSIEST PLACE
Every hour – 43,000 pedestrians | 2,000 vehicles crossing.
Every day – 23 London bus routes cross | 230,000 patrons access the tube below.
Solution – Remove clutter, increase footway space, improve lighting, and deliver new diagonal crossings to double pedestrian capacity.
IMAGE CREDIT
Oxford Circus diagonal crossing and London Underground forecourt
As part of the Oxford, Regent and Bond Street (ORB) Action Plan, Ludwig worked for Atkins (now SNC Lavalin Atkins) with The Crown Estate, Transport for London and Westminster City Council to deliver this project.
IMAGE CREDIT
Oxford Circus diagonal crossing and London Underground forecourt
As part of the Oxford, Regent and Bond Street (ORB) Action Plan, Ludwig worked for Atkins (now SNC Lavalin Atkins) with The Crown Estate, Transport for London and Westminster City Council to deliver this project.
THE CROWN ESTATE, LONDON
BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME
From 2013 to 2020 Ludwig curated placemaking initiatives across The Crown Estates‘ central London portfolio, building upon earlier place shaping public realm improvement projects he was involved in. He worked with specialist manufacturers to prototype new street furniture and managed the approval process which included legal agreements to facilitate leaving private kit on public land. The Crown Estates’ placemaking initiatives have set the standard for the other Great Estates to follow and the bronze Glasshouse Street planters have been replicated by the Portman Estate in Old Quebec Street.
