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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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01-07-2022 - Landscaping
Urban activation with AIR SQUARE by KOGAA and Kubíček Visionair
Czech architecture firm KOGAA, collaborating with hot air balloon manufacturers Kubíček Visionair, has created the AIR SQUARE: a modular and transportable location designed to activate underused urban spaces. Thanks to the installation, these places can adapt their role to suit the needs of the community.
06-06-2022 - Landscaping
Moment Factory, art at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo
Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, the busiest transportation hub in the world, is the context in which the latest project conceived by Moment Factory is inserted, a Montreal-based multimedia studio with an office in Japan. The Colour Bath installation offers visitors a colour immersion, for moments of serene wonder and tranquility in the daily infrastructure routine.
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.
