19th Feb 2025 - Climate change is driving increasingly extreme weather in the UK, prompting a shift in urban design to create more weather-resilient communities. Focusing on weather-deterrent planning ensures outdoor spaces remain functional and pleasant despite harsher conditions.
Designer Margaret McCurry started with steel side frames that recall platform swings. Her inspiration for the seating was a picket fence around a Victorian era cottage and reflections of forms in the outdoor environments. In the Lakeside Seat, as in her architecture, the linkage is artfully transformed so, as she puts it, "the history and memory are there, but they're jogged a bit."
MARGARET MCCURRYFrom Landscape Forms
Margaret McCurry is an architect, Chicago native, and graduate Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies from the Graduate School of Design at Har...
Lakeside Litter Bin
Lakeside Bench
Lakeside Planter