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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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13-12-2021 - Landscaping
An urban community garden and educational centre in Mexico City
Mexican architectural studio VERTEBRAL worked on El Terreno community garden and educational centre in Mexico City during the COVID-19 pandemic. The multipurpose pavilion made of recycled materials and the garden convincingly bring together the themes of education, sustainability and people-centred design.
10-12-2021 - Landscaping
Coded Scape, an urban landscape by 100architects
The team from international architectural practice 100architects in Shanghai has created an urban landscape surrounding Hangzhou Future City Experience Centre, Coded Scape, in which the architects express the idea of binary code in landscape design.
15-11-2021 - Landscaping
Symbiosis with nature, a green neighbourhood in Bangkok
Attention to the environment is the foundation of future urban development. Precisely for this reason within The Forestias, in Bangkok, one of the largest real estate development projects in Thailand, we find an urban forest covering 48,000 square metres of space. Here, the Forest Pavilion shows the future neighbourhood and will subsequently be converted into The Forestias Ecosystem Learning Centre for sharing knowledge of the forest ecosystem.
02-11-2021 - Landscaping
The first Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize
The American Cultural Landscape Foundation, or TCLF, has announced the first winner of the new biennial Oberlander Prize, named after the late landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and bestowed on a recipient who is "exceptionally talented, creative, courageous, and visionary”. The first winner is Julie Bargmann.
01-11-2021 - Landscaping
Kärdla City Pavilion designed by the Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter and Mareld Landscape Studios
Swedish architecture firm Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter, together with Swedish landscape architects from the Mareld Landscape studio have recently renovated the central square of the town of Kärdla, in Estonia. The intervention is one of several projects launched to celebrate the centenary of the nation’s declaration of independence.
11-10-2021 - Landscaping
Songzhuang Micro Community Park by Crossboundaries
The international, multidisciplinary studio Crossboundaries has designed a vibrant open-air community park in Songzhuang. It all stems from the idea of a community of artists acting as an engine for change and progress, translated by the architects into an inclusive park.
