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Landscaping Green Architecture
Landscaping and urban design because public spaces are becoming more and more important in architecture.
19-07-2023 - Landscaping
U / U Studio designs Řeporyje Skatepark in Prague
A leisure park intended for a variety of different ages and social spheres, redefining the concept of public space: U / U Studio designed Řeporyje Skatepark, transforming what was until then a vacant area in a predominantly residential neighbourhood in western Prague.
14-06-2023 - Landscaping
NODE Architecture & Urbanism (NODE) designs the Shenzhen Lotus Water Culture Base
The NODE Architecture & Urbanism (NODE) studio founded by Doreen Heng Liu designed the restored surface landscape above the water purification plant and the related underground offices of the Shenzhen Lotus Water Culture Base complex, located within a municipal lotus-themed park in Luohu District, Shenzhen, China.
12-04-2023 - Landscaping
Vltavská Underground, transformation of an urban non-place
The architects of U / U studio and re_place worked on revitalisation of a classic non-place in the city: an underpass in a Prague metro station. Vltavská Underground had already become a mecca for street artists, and is now a public space inviting freestyle sports activities.
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16-09-2019 - Landscaping
Yiwu Cultural Square, a public stage by UAD
The architects from the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University (UAD) designed a large, multipurpose cultural complex in the southeast China city of Yiwu. An opportunity to create a new image of the city.
09-09-2019 - Landscaping
2019 American Architecture Awards to Civitas and W for Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park in Tampa
The project in a challenged neighbourhood in West Tampa, Florida by Denver-based urban design and landscape architecture firm Civitas and W Architecture and Landscape Architecture of New York has netted not one but two 2019 American Architecture Awards for the designers.
27-08-2019 - Landscaping
The 20th edition of the International Garden Festival in Grand-Métis
The International Garden Festival in Grand-Métis, near Quebec, Canada is celebrating its 20th anniversary with some fun and games. The selected theme - Terrains de jeu - Playgrounds - is fertile ground for creativity, encompassing both the notion of compact space and play.
23-08-2019 - Landscaping
The sixth edition of Passages Insolites in Quebec
Passages Insolites is a 4 km public art circuit in the historic Petit Champlain and Saint-Roch districts of Quebec, Canada. This is the sixth edition of the event that brings together 14 artworks crafted by 40 local and international artists and architecture collectives whose work plays on the idea of “unusual passages”.
13-08-2019 - Landscaping
2019 Festival des Architectures Vives (FAV) - Beauty
The Festival des Architectures Vives has been setting alight Montpellier, France every summer since 2006. For the 14th time, this event has invited visitors to step into the city’s massive architectural heritage because many usually inaccessible private palazzos and courtyards open their doors to the public during FAV.
05-08-2019 - Landscaping
LeuWebb Projects, Long Division installation
At a time when there is always talk of walls, borders, divisions and boundaries, the site-specific work “Long Division” by LeuWebb Project uses the fence as a starting point to consider how the land around Mississauga, the Bradley Museum of Ontario in Canada, has been occupied, settled and colonized.
