Pigeon Triangle in World Landscape Architecture

Duncan reflects on Pigeon Triangle at Mayfield - a compact new public space for Landsec and The Mayfield Partnership that meaningfully extends the reuse and circular design narrative established at the award-winning Mayfield Park.

At Mayfield Park, the site itself became a quarry - salvaging stone, steel and artefacts to embed memory and reduce reliance on new materials. Pigeon Triangle takes that ethos further. With fewer obvious resources to draw from, the project asks a more demanding question: how do you design through reuse when the opportunities are not immediately visible?

The scheme thoughtfully builds on elements of the Avanade Intelligent Garden, originally designed by Tom Massey Studio and Studio Weave for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Rather than simply relocating the garden, selected components are carefully dismantled and reinterpreted - becoming one layer within a broader, distinctly Mancunian story of reclamation and reinvention.

As Mayfield Park continues to grow toward the city centre, Pigeon Triangle represents its next outward step - proof that reuse is not a phase, but a long-term commitment embedded in the DNA of the regeneration.

Read Duncan’s feature here: https://lnkd.in/enP-pBZK