Philip Cave Associates

Passion
The practice has a passion to create places that give inspiration and enjoyment to the people that use them, but at the same time are legible and satisfy all the functional requirements. To us there is no standard project – we strive to innovate in every scheme to take it beyond the ordinary, and are happy to champion that process.

Process
We believe that good design comes out of in depth analysis of both the site and the intended user. This approach reveals opportunities that we take forward into a creative framework, and allows us to constantly make connections between people and places.

Collaboration
All of our projects involve collaboration – with clients, architects, engineers, artists, the end user, and we believe that schemes benefit from this multi-faceted approach.

Sustainability
Taking care of the environment pervades all our designs, and is expressed in the way we design for biodiversity, water management, and use of resources.

Services
Core skills centre on landscape architecture, urban design and master-planning with expertise in public art, and public participation. We design both exterior and interior landscapes and offer arboricultural and ecological surveys with assessment for Code and BREEAM. In this small focused practice, Philip Cave is fully involved in every project.

Particular Expertise
– Public realm and semi private spaces
– Roof gardens and green roofs
– Site and master planning
– Green infrastructure
– Water management
– Bioengineering
– Water features
– Way-finding
– Visual assessment
– Gardens
– Interior landscape
– Mediterranean, arid and tropical climates