Cairngorm National Park Entry Points

Ian White Associates Limited

This project helped to establish the identity of the Cairngorm National Park by the design and placing of entry markers and associated work to make the entries clearer. Markers were placed at every junction of road, rail, cycleway and national trail crossing the park boundary. Markers included black ospreys (the park logo) on local silver-grey granite in a timeless and legible design. A process of de-cluttering of the landscape around the markers, removing or refurbishing existing laybys, highway signs, snowpoles, stock fencing and other features, helped present the markers as part of the rural landscape.

Overview

Location

Location 

Newtonmore

Category

Rural

Landscape Architect

Ian White Associates Limited

Client

The Cairngorms National Park Authority

Brief

To design and deliver entry point markers for 29 roadside sites in the Cairngorms National Park, in association with landscaping and other works, to provide a positive experience for people arriving at the park, encapsulating the areas essential character and evoking the parks fundamental values of quality, welcome, integrity, respect, protection and progress.

Awards

Newtonmore

Details

Project Team

Landscape architect: Ian White Associates Landscape Architects. Marker design: Aaron Lawton Associates. Quantity surveyor: David Campbell Associates. Engineer: ADAC.

Local planning authority or government body

Year Completed

May 2011

Project Size

Technical's

Planting

Materials

Contractors 

Installation contractor: Hunter Construction (Aberdeen)

Ian White Associates Limited

Approximate Map Location


Location

Newtonmore

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