John Hopkins was recognised at the Landscape Institute Awards last week. John, an alumnus of the University of Greenwich, died suddenly at the age of 59, in January this year.
He was a landscape architect, urban designer and environmental planner with expertise in regional planning through to site design and implementation. He was Project Director for the Olympic Parklands and Public Realm at the Olympic Delivery Authority in London from 2007 – 2011 and was previously a partner in LDA Design heading up their London office where he led landscape planning studies for the Thames Gateway. John had published widely and co-wrote The Making of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park with Peter Neal (Wiley 2012). He was awarded by the Landscape Institute, the Royal Town Planning Institute, Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects and the Civic Trust. John was an alumnus of the University of Greenwich, having graduated in Landscape Architecture from Thames Polytechnic.