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We prepared and implemented proposals designed to better explain and interpret the Roman Baths, including researching, building and displaying a model of the Baths, and to encourage the wider exploration of the World Heritage Site of Carthage and the adjoining conservation area of Sidi Bou Said to the half million annual visitors both tourists and Tunisians.
We directed the preparation and implementation of a landscape management and restoration plan for the grade I listed park and garden and World Heritage Site, designed by Capability Brown, which also better accommodating visitor use and car parking and including the replanting of its avenues and peripheral planting blocks.
We directed the restoration of the grade I historic park of Hawkstone in Shropshire working with the landscape architect Simon Walding and the architects Oliver West and John Scott which won both Civic Trust and Europa Nostra awards for both the restoration work and new build restaurant and visitor centre. This 19th century park used the dramatic outcrops of red sandstone to combine bridges, follies, a grotto, and monument to create a much-visited ‘sublime’ landscape.
The restoration, which took place after considerable public consultation and engagement, needed the restoration of a complex public access system involving steps cut in the rock, frightful leaps over vertiginous falls and the replanting of darkly disturbing shrubberies and pinneries.
The project, necessitating considerable historic research, involved the use of traditional and replica construction techniques, modern repair and construction techniques applied both to new and historic fabric, specialist conservation/construction techniques (lime plasters, brickwork and stonework in lime mortar, reproduction joinery...), special manufacture of components to match original details and specialist artists, subcontractors and consultants.
