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Landscaping Green Architecture
Landscaping and urban design because public spaces are becoming more and more important in architecture.
29-12-2022 - Landscaping
External Reference presents Escaleras y Mirador Vela
"Escaleras y Mirador Vela" is a new project by Carmelo Zappulla’s architectural practice External Reference connecting Passeig del Mare Nostrum with Plaça de la Rosa dels Vents on the Barceloneta waterfront. The project presents an architectural façade accessible via a stairway and a raised waterfront promenade 9.30 metres above the ground.
27-12-2022 - Landscaping
Lollipop Street, public space in Shanghai by 100architects
The 100architects international architecture studio has created a colourful intervention for the activation of the public space in a square in front of the Jinyang shopping centre in Shanghai, China. As the name "Lollipop Street" implies, in their language, the playful elements installed draw inspiration from the imaginary “candy world”.
21-12-2022 - Landscaping
The Guard Patrol, enjoying the landscape with Mjölk architekti
Czech studio Mjölk architekti has added four panoramic viewpoints to a strategic spot on Stráž Mountain in the Czech Republic, giving architectural form to the four patrons depicted in the coat of arms of the town of Rokytnice, which was founded by merging four villages: the Fox, the Bear, the Sheep and the Miner.
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01-06-2022 - Landscaping
Rethinking a schoolyard, Taktik Design
The Canadian Taktik Design studio has redesigned the exterior schoolyard of Collège Saint-Paul, a high school near Montreal renowned for its sporting vocation. Now the courtyard houses new functions in line with the students' and the community's needs and improves the use of the open spaces.
30-05-2022 - Landscaping
Arrival by Wutopia Lab with Roboticplus.AI, an urban sculpture
An artistic gesture to transform an anonymous square into an enticing place for passersby. This is Arrival, a 3D-printed magic realism-inspired installation in the Star Plaza of The MixC Shopping Mall in Shanghai. The intervention was commissioned by TOPYS and carried out by Wutopia Lab in collaboration with Roboticplus.AI.
03-05-2022 - Landscaping
The Vanished House by Hu Quanchun
"The Vanished House" by Hu Quanchun of Field Confirming Studio is an artwork created for the second East Lake International Ecological Sculpture Biennale, held in Wuhan in 2021. The exhibition was held in Wuhan Shimenfeng Memorial Park, a cemetery in a beautiful natural setting with a serene, tranquil atmosphere.
21-04-2022 - Landscaping
Battleiroig redesigns a Barcelona cemetery
Multidisciplinary studio Battleiroig worked on Roques Blanques Metropolitan Cemetery in Collserola Nature Park in El Papiol, Barcelona. Cluster number 6 of the cemetery’s 7 clusters, designed as a 122-hectare garden, was developed on the basis of a respect for and conservation of the environment, offering new ways of remembering the dead.
19-04-2022 - Landscaping
Kossmanndejong at Floriade in Almere with The Voice of Urban Nature
On the occasion of Floriade Expo 2022, the world horticulture exhibition in Almere, in the Netherlands, creative studio Kossmanndejong and Overtreders W, Onkruidenier and Joost Emmerik designed The Voice of Urban Nature pavilion for the cities of Amsterdam and Almere. The pavilion, the gardens and the exhibition are a single unit showing how we can all live together: people, animals, plants, trees and microbes.
08-04-2022 - Landscaping
Yogapoints, sports placemaking by Studio KLAR
How to create quality public space responding to the requirements of the Strategic Plan of the Region of Moravia-Slesia? By combining practicality and beauty in an architectural structure benefiting users: Yogapoints, by Czech architectural studio KLAR.
