Sarah Price Garden Designer Olympic Park
Now as one of the principle designers working under master planner george hargreaves price 31 is helping to transform an unpromising waterside strip of industrial wasteland into the largest new urban park built.
Sarah price garden designer olympic park. Garden designer sarah price made a tantalizingly brief impression at the rhs chelsea flower show with two beautiful gardens in 2007 and 2008 but has kept a low profile in the past four years. Sarah co designed the 2012 gardens at london s olympic park and was a planting consultant for lda design on the post games legacy design. Back gardens illustrated house garden royal academy of arts magazine the telegraph about biography awards press clients collaborators projects private public show gardens writing gardens illustrated house garden royal academy of arts magazine the telegraph cuttings contact.
The entire olympic park reported to have cost 200m is the biggest new open space in london since the victorian era. She won the competition and her garden design career took off culminating in her high profile involvement in the olympic park gardens in 2012. She enrolled in a part time garden design course and entered an rhs competition to design a conceptual garden at hampton court.
Sarah s section which will be seen by visitors crossing on the bridge. Among other current projects are landscape designs for the whitworth art gallery in manchester and consultancy for a six acre elizabethan garden in the. Sarah is the co designer of the 2012 gardens at the olympic park in east london and remains at the core of the team planning the post games legacy design and maintenance of the gardens.
Price continues to work on a number of large public planting schemes as well as private projects. With a background in art perhaps the next step into design was inevitable.