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Residents have challenged Hackney Council’s green credentials after tree pits they cared for were “weeded”.

Architect Gordon Shrigley analyses the recently completed Hackney Gardens project - Credit: Benedict Luxmoore Architect Gordon Shrigley takes a look at how building materials can showcase an area's varied history and analyses the recently completed Hackney Gardens project.  To design a new part of a city requires the diligent architect to consider whether to enhance what already exists or to demolish and start again. Cities, on the whole, come to be not by the imposition of a grand masterplan, but mainly through happenstance. All cities are the result of many competing hands, each with a uni...