Tag Landscape

12-07-2021

MC A - Mario Cucinella Architects Palazzo Senza Tempo: a timeless building in Peccioli

A recent new project by Mario Cucinella’s architectural practice MC A has just been inaugurated in Peccioli, in the province of Pisa. Palazzo Senza Tempo, which translates as “Timeless Building”, is a renovation and redevelopment project in the historic centre of the medieval hamlet which was brought to the world’s attention with the presentation of "Laboratorio Peccioli" in the Italian pavilion curated by architect Alessandro Melis at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at Biennale di Venezia.

02-07-2021

Stadtkrone, land art by Observatorium in Dorsten

The Rotterdam-based art collective, Observatorium, is back in the Ruhr area, this time in Dorsten. Their new work entitled Stadtkrone, the city crown so to speak, is tied to their previous interventions carried out in the area. Stadtkrone is a landmark in a recently redeveloped city park, created to provide users with a new panoramic observation point over the Lippe river and the Canal.

21-06-2021

"Soliloqui Mantova negli scatti di Gianluca Vassallo" exhibition

On 12 June, the exhibition entitled "Soliloqui - Mantova negli scatti di Gianluca Vassallo " was inaugurated at Palazzo Te, a photographic project dedicated to the city, promoted by the Festivaletteratura literary festival and the Palazzo Te Foundation. The exhibition offers an artistic view of the city of Mantua through Gianluca Vassallo’s lens and will be open to the public until September 12 of this year, anticipating and then accompanying the 25th edition of Festivaletteratura, set to take place in the Lombard city from September 8 to 12.

31-05-2021

Forest Tower by Studio EFFEKT: a way to reconnect with nature

Danish firm EFFEKT are the architects behind the Forest Tower for the Camp Adventure Park in southern Denmark, which offers a wide range of activities based on interacting with nature, such as tree climbing and aerial ziplining. But its iconic tower is the true landmark that brings visitors back into contact with nature.

12-10-2020

The winners of the 2020 Young Talent Architecture Award

Regeneration and renaturalisation, redrawing the landscape with a focus on local communities and water management are the themes emerging in the projects that have won the 2020 Young Talent Architecture Award and its Asian edition, announced on October 5. The prizes for the architects of the future are an integral part of the Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Union award for contemporary architecture.

07-10-2020

KilometroVerdeParma, reforesting together along the motorway

The KilometroVerdeParma project was launched in 2015 by a group of people and based on an idea: to create a tree-lined corridor along the 11 kilometres of the A1 motorway that crosses Parma to redevelop the environment of one of the busiest stretches of motorway in Europe.

24-09-2020

Rotterdam by bike, from countryside to canals

The city of Rotterdam is known for its harbour and its architecture, especially from the post-war period and today’s famous icons, from the Erasmus Bridge to the station and the Markthal, to name but a few. But in no time at all, you can ride your bike out of the city, through the green countryside with its picturesque canals and farms.

03-08-2020

atelierpng redevelops Fort L'Écluse in Léaz

Fort L'Écluse in Léaz has been renovated to plans by atelierpng in a project developed in perfect harmony with the historic memory of this military structure and the landscape around it. The fort has been transformed repeatedly over the years, destroyed, rebuilt, amplified and adapted for different uses; today, the redeveloped fort becomes a major tourist attraction in a splendid natural setting.

06-07-2020

Exhibition at Aedes Architecture Forum: Arctic Nordic Alpine – In Dialogue With Landscape. Snøhetta

July 4 through August 20 Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum hosts the exhibition Arctic Nordic Alpine, focusing on architecture in vulnerable landscapes. A number of pioneering projects by Snøhetta, such as the Hotel Svart at the foot of the Svartisen glacier, the Arctic World Archive Visitor Centre on Svalbard Island, Under restaurant in Lindesnes and the recent Tungestølen shelter in Luster, offer examples of how architecture can make an active contribution to mitigation of the effects of climate change and promote more sustainable ways of using nature by implementing solutions in dialogue with landscape.