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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.
RECENT PROJECTS
27-01-2017 - Landscaping
An urban sculpture by schneider+schumacher in Frankfurt
The office complex “die welle” (the wave) in Frankfurt, Germany not far from the Alte Oper (opera house) also extends outdoors thanks to an integrated project of landscaping and art, the former by KLA kiparlandschaftsarchitekten and the latter by architecture firm schneider+schumacher “Die Welle” or the “The Wave” in Frankfurt's West End district is a complex of buildings constructed in the late 1990s in the city centre, mainly used by the services sector.
23-01-2017 - Landscaping
Estonia, floating structures respond to environmental needs
Last summer's output of the Wilderness Summer School with the Estonian Academy of Arts Interior Architecture department: VEETEE - waterway in English - with three floating structures in a very challenging landscape, a forest that is flooded at least once a year.
09-01-2017 - Landscaping
Sydney Park: an environmental water park
The precious, fundamental resource of water is at the centre of the project by landscape architects Turf Design Studio & Environmental Partnership for Sydney Park in the Australian city.
05-01-2017 - Landscaping
Studio 999 takes a garden to the roof in Turin
An eco-sustainable intervention in the historical centre of Turin where the project by Elena Carmagnani from STUDIO 999 with Marta Carraro from OrtiAlti has injected wellness and vitality into an unused rooftop by turning it into a terrace garden.
19-12-2016 - Landscaping
Zuloark, finalist in 2016 NextLandmark with DSS2016
Spanish collective Zuloark was one of the ten finalists in the Landmark of the Year category of the 2016 Next Landmark contest organised by the Floornature portal.
26-11-2016 - Landscaping
Stupid Borders. Visual project by Rubén Martín de Lucas
The project called “Stupid Borders – Fronteras estúpidas” by Spanish visual artist Rubén Martín de Lucas explores one of the major issues of our times - borders - from the visual and aesthetic perspective, using performance and land art as the media and recording it all with photographs.
