Landscaping Green Architecture
Landscaping and urban design because public spaces are becoming more and more important in architecture.
Curated by Christiane Burklein
23-04-2021 - Landscaping
KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden.
A new exhibition has opened at the New York Botanical Garden - KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, dedicated to the latest pieces by famous Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Installations that evoke the great fascination that the artist has always had for the natural world, but which also provide an opportunity to enjoy the wonderful landscapes of the botanical garden in which they have been set up.
02-04-2021 - Landscaping
A hi-tech footbridge over the Moldau
A team of architects and engineers from Prague’s Klokner Institute CTU have built a footbridge over Bohemia’s Moldau River, on the EuroVelo 7 cycling route from Sweden to Sicily.
08-03-2021 - Landscaping
Pegasus Trail by 100architects: an urban attractor in Chongqing
Pegasus Trail, a project by Shanghai firm 100architects located in the city of Chongqing, offers a new type of public space that they have dubbed an "urban toy". This is an urban playground for the use of the city and all its citizens, regardless of age, which aims to foster new interactions in the Chinese megalopolis.
RECENT PROJECTS
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.
24-07-2019 - Landscaping
ARTIFICIAL, symbolic self-building in Costa Rica with PICO and A01
As part of the Latin American Social Workshop, 40 architecture students from all over the region worked together under the guidance of the PICO and A01 collectives for a self-construction that makes the most of the neighbourhood square as a flexible and transparent shared space, creating a new public plaza for the community.
16-07-2019 - Landscaping
Solar Egg on Lake Siljan in Sweden
Solar Egg, the micro-architecture crafted by the artists Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström for the property developer Riksbyggen is a small, portable sauna that has travelled the world for the last few years.
11-07-2019 - Landscaping
Grand Quay in Montreal, reconnecting with the water
City waterfronts have turned into one of this century’s major themes and are essential to keep cities alive and build their resilience to climate change as well as making them attractive for use by the local community.
