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The completion of a ten-year landscape art project, the Place of Origin, has been marked with an official opening by the Duke of Kent. The project, designed to celebrate the quarrying of granite and influence of the Scottish stone industry, focuses on the Kemnay quarry in Aberdeenshire which is owned by Aggregate Industries. It includes the creation of a woodland area and observation hill. Three artists, led by John Maine RA, worked closely on the project and chose to make the landscape into artwork, using 100,000 tons of granular materials rather than create individual pieces of sculpture.

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In partnership with Nottingham City Council, hard landscaping specialist Charcon has received an award for design excellence and innovation from Interpave, the Precast Concrete and Kerb Association. The award was for the transformation of Maid Marian Way which was judged to be the fourth worst 'Street of Shame' three years ago in a campaign run by CABE and Radio 4. Improvements included the replacement of subways with surface level crossings, tree planting, new lighting, seating and hard landscaping.

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