The design team could look to their previous park projects for inspiration for Aberdeen.
In the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics, LDA Design was appointed to lead the masterplanning and detailed design of the Olympic Park, described as “Europe’s most significant landscape project for a generation”.
The parklands were designed to host hundreds of thousands of visitors during the games, but the firm also managed to create an area that could be used after the event too – transforming it into a permanent public park.
The firm was also tasked with restoring Arnold Circus in London, a unique garden and heritage spot at the heart of Britain’s first publicly-funded housing scheme.
It has won three national awards, including the Landscape Institute’s Heritage and Conservation Award.
LDA Design is also working to create a public park at Battersea Power Station, which will include a riverside paths for pedestrians and cyclists and river gardens, as well as space for events.
In Moscow, they developed a multi-million pound plan for the world-famous Gorky Park, better known in the west for the novel and subsequent 1983 film of the same name.
The greenspace, which is actually seven separate parks, was reorganised to allow better movement between them.