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Talks on Buddhist Gardens and a Landscape Design for the Druk White Lotus School

23 January 2013
Posted in News

Planting1Reserve your free tickets here for Tuesday 26th February 2013 to hear a talk, in London, on Buddhist gardens by a world expert on the history of western as well as eastern gardens.

Tom Turner will be giving this free talk in London from 6.30 - 8.30pm. Tom visited the school in summer 2012 and is helping to create a landscape design for the DWLS campus.

Joining Tom will be Simon Drury-Brown, a landscape architect, who will talk about his visit to DWLS last year and his plans for the DWLS landscape programme in 2013.

The Sustainable Landscapes Research Group, School of Architecture, Design and Construction at the University of Greenwich is hosting the talks which are free to members of the public. The venue is:

King William 315 Lecture Theatre (LT KW315)
Old Royal Naval College
London, SE10 9LS

Tuesday, 26 February 2013 from 18:30 to 20:30 (GMT)

Tickets have to be reserved in advance through the link below. We look forward to seeing many of you there.

Click here to reserve your free tickets

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Landscaping

27 October 2012
Posted in Construction blog

We wish to create a lush garden landscape for the school community. We started this year in April with a volunteer landscape architect, Yiannis Baltagiannis, creating planted areas along the central residential spine of the campus, see below:

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Yiannis started a plant nursery to nurture seedlings for additional planting, see below:

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Yiannis also got the greenhouse in use again following the winter, see below:

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After three months, Simon Brown, another volunteer landscape architect, took over from Yiannis.

Simon developed the plant nursery concept with a specialist from the University of Greenwich, London, Tom Turner. A new planting area in front of the greenhouse has been created for growing vegetables, see below:

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Drip irrigation of the campus is planned for 2013, allowing controlled watering and efficient use of water.

We are creating a landscape strategy with help from specialists at the University of Greenwich. Tom Turner, spent two weeks in Ladakh to help with this process, see below:

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The students enjoyed the summer gardening competition in which they worked on garden areas outside their classrooms, see below:

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Construction progress

27 October 2012
Posted in Construction blog

2012 was a busy year. Two IT-enabled classrooms were built, plus the North block of Residence 4 which will accommodate 44 remote area students. The masonry work on the mudslide defenses was also completed, the wall now being about 1km long and up to 3 metres high. A huge congratulations to the Construction Team.

Below: IT-enabled classrooms being painted and completed.

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Below: Residence 4 under construction.

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Below: The defensive wall to protect from any future mudslide event.

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Below: The local Construction Manager (right) and UK Development Manager (left).

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Gardening Competition

27 October 2012
Posted in Campus Blog

The students worked hard on designing, planting and nurturing their gardens over the spring and summer. The landscape architecture volunteer Yiannis Baltagiannis awarded certificates and trophies to the winning class in each section.

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2nd edition of DrukSkat school magazine

11 October 2012
Posted in News

frontcover2ndeditionThe recently published 2nd edition of "DrukSkat" the school magazine is available here to download.