It's always great to be inspired by the very best urban spaces and exemplar public realm projects and the European Public Space Prize 2012 shows some incredible transformations.

Sponsored by our partner Escofet, the winning projects all feature unique achievements in landscape and urban design.

We are also incredibly proud to have been involved with one of the "Special Mention" projects in the form of Exhibition Road.

The winners and our special commendation are featured in this article

The 2012 Civic Trust Awards were selected from 306 national and international entries, with 52 projects were recognised by the prestigious CTA panel.

We're proud to have supplied products to some of the award winners, including The Hepworth Wakefield by David Chipperfield Architects which was given the 2012 Special Award by the National Panel members as their favourite scheme from this year’s award winning projects.

Click to see the award winning projects we supplied, and the products featured in these schemes

The Landscape Institute are pertinently launching their client guide at Ecobuild 2012

Woodhouse have been invited to share our experiences in the seminar stream at the exhibition, as we’re confronted on a continual basis by the clear need for deeper collaboration between groups of built environment professionals.

How can a plethora of stakeholders with a multitude of different and often conflicting interests all work together harmoniously?

Green Places Magazine asked some of the women who have shaped – and continue to shape – our world’s public spaces and landscapes to celebrate International Women’s Day this month.

Woodhouse’s Design and Development Director Romy Rawlings, a Chartered Landscape Architect with a career spanning 25 years in the landscape sector, was flattered to be nominated as one of these 40 professionals and the full Q&A is featured in this article.

Our Spanish street furniture partner, Escofet, is proudly sponsoring the European Prize for Urban Public Space. It is an innovative prize that truly recognises the impact of good landscape design on the people that matter - the citizens.

Priority is honourably given to architecture with a social vocation rather than to that with an aesthetic or spectacular accent.

This article shows previous winners featuring our products.

What is wayfinding and, more to the point, what might be classed as good wayfinding?

With evidence of exemplar projects thin on the ground and customers often bewildered by multiple stakeholders’ conflicting needs, this article discusses the true principles of wayfinding best practice with applicative advice.

Local Government News and Woodhouse held a roundtable event to share ideas on enhancing the public realm through signage and information provision. This article discusses the findings from the discussion along with the challenges local authorities faced and some guidance from fellow public sector professionals in achieving an urban realm that "works" for everyone.

A commentary on current trends in urban regeneration, design, materials and the impact of the CSR. This article was originally published in Building Products - June 2010