The Ilford Blueprint websiteAs you may have already read in an earlier post, we were proud to recently jointly unveil the Ilford Blueprint website with our development partners in the Planning and Regeneration Unit at the London Borough of Redbridge.

The product of several months’ working in a highly embedded way with the Unit on a true joint venture basis, the site combines our OSCAR content management system for ease and flexibility of up-date with groundbreaking use of our 3d modelling technologies. The whole project was supported throughout by our skills in project management, place making and urban design, as well as our in-depth technical capabilities.

The result – in the words of Chris Berry, the Borough’s Chief Planning and Regeneration Officer – provides:

… focussed, reliable, detailed and accessible technical information to a level not previously provided by a local authority. Virtual Viewing’s contribution to the Borough initiative cannot be underestimated:  their services and capabilities extended far beyond technical expertise, to include 3d modelling, urban design and bringing reality to policy-making, all of which were provided as a true ‘joint venture’ operation.

You can download (in PDF format) a copy of a promotional mailer that has subsequently been sent to several hundred members of the London investment and development community, providing a powerful testimonial for a project about which we are as proud as our development partners.

Image of the City, Bratislava, May 2010After launching our 3D City Modelling capability at the MIPIM 2010 Conference and Exhibition in Cannes in March, Virtual Viewing has recently been invited to participate in a second pan-European event to demonstrate both our technical expertise and our understanding of – and strength of service in – the broader aspects of urban design, city planning and place-making. The Image of the City Conference was held in Bratislava on 11 May, and featured speakers from five countries who represented professions and disciplines as diverse as architecture, graphic design, philosophy and economics.

The Conference took its name from an influential book, written by Kevin Lynch in 1960, that drew on the results of a five-year study on how people perceive spatial information as they navigate through the urban landscape. Like much of his work, it is concerned with finding ways of harnessing what we know about how we ‘see’ cities as the basis for good urban design.

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