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Famend architects Louis de Soissons Ltd are proud to be celebrating over 100 years in enterprise

Renowned architects Louis de Soissons Ltd are proud to be celebrating over 100 years in business

Aerial view of Welwyn Garden City, Parkway and town center in 1920

Submitted by Katy Harris

The company’s legacy speaks for itself with its founder Louis de Soissons, who was the architect responsible for the master plan for Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire in 1920.

Louis created an entire city made up of homes, schools, churches, factories, and shops.

With a focus on quality of life that was ahead of his time, Louis was a master of road planning. Every part of the then revolutionary garden city was carefully measured, with a density that nowhere exceeded 12 houses per acre, which gave the new residents the vital space in which they could exist beyond the bare minimum.

He made imaginative use of various dead ends to create small community units with important services and amenities, which are skillfully complemented by the essential green space landscape that makes this masterpiece of architecture and planning so desirable today.

The city was designed to allow residents to walk or bike from their place of residence to work, while at the time highly valued and pioneering, travel for vital services in a post-coronavirus world is the hot topic.

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The enduring influence of Welwyn Garden City and the Garden City principles anchored in it are internationally recognized. This has been highlighted during the current pandemic where we must face the challenges of the 21st century to create places with clean air and space around them that people want to live and can afford.

The legacy and future of the garden city have had a major impact on urban planning and have inspired other urban planners around the world.

Louis was a pioneer of his time with a vision of seeing open spaces associated with attractive yet affordable housing for the working people of the UK. Despite his insistence on certain classical values ​​of architecture and design, he also realized that this was not a purely intellectual exercise.

Welwyn Garden City Street

He created structures that should be used and loved by the people in them. His philosophies are maintained by the current team at Louis de Soissons Ltd, who believe that every building should have a bespoke, outstanding vision while benefiting from our unmatched experience and technical knowledge.

The company prides itself on knowing that we have a rich heritage with a contemporary and progressive attitude towards the future.

Louis de Soissons is a vibrant, forward-looking architecture and construction project management consultancy with a rich 100 year heritage that creates work, living environments and landscapes that people are proud to live in.