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Student designs swing from tree tops

The landscape team at _space architecture group has tutored students from Newcastle University in a project that has seen their architectural and landscape designs come to life in a one-off ‘woodland’ exhibition.

The _space team gave advice to students from the BA Architectural Studies course at Newcastle University who were briefed by the Thornley Woodland Centre to prepare designs for a hypothetical Countryside Centre that would provide education, administration and visitor facilities to the public at Derwent Walk Country Park in Gateshead.

Four of the best countryside centre designs are now on display at the Thornley Woodland Centre ‘future visions’ exhibition that runs until Friday 22 August.

The designs include images and models that focus on the Winlaton Mill, High Dam, and Saw Mill areas.

Nancy Corbett, head of the _space Landscape team, said: “The area that the students had to work with provides an impressive mixture of important monuments both historical and natural. It is an area of outstanding beauty and significance, reaching out to the Tyne Valley in the North and Gibside in the South.

“We are so impressed throughout by the creative and considered responses to the brief. Once the exhibition is over our practice will continue to showcase the students’ work in the _spaceworks’ atrium. There our staff and _space visitors to will be able to see for themselves the talent which young designers are bringing to the industry.”

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