Hargreaves Associates’ Senior Principal Gavin McMillan took part in a panel at the International Cultural Forum St. Petersburg along with architects Pierre De Meuron, Asif Khan, Vladimir Plotkin, and Nikita Yaveyn.
Gavin spoke about how the staging of major sporting and cultural events with their regional planning focus, concentration of resources, and unmovable deadlines can also be leveraged to repair lost ecologies and to make new ecologies to bring Nature back into our cities and our lives. Both the Sydney Olympic Park and the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park convey the capacity for landscape architecture to bring new life, energy and vitality into neglected regions and to orchestrate powerful urban landscapes.