Tag Urban Park

24-03-2020

Geoparken in Stavanger, a sustainable and still relevant playground

Geoparken in Stavanger, Norway is a project by the Norwegian architecture firm Helen&Hard with young people from the city. A playground created from material salvaged from the oil industry and that hasn’t lost any of its charm even 12 years down the track.

12-03-2020

Tainan Spring, an urban lagoon in Taiwan by MVRDV

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has created a virtuous example of the circular economy in Tainan, Taiwan. The architects removed and recycled a strategically positioned shopping mall in the old town, which no longer serves its intended purpose, replacing it with a sunken public plaza dominated by an urban pool and local plants, and surrounded by a shaded arcade.

02-03-2020

El Muelle studio completes a landscaping project in Benalmádena on the Costa del Sol

The Spanish architecture studio El Muelle has completed a project tied to tradition, to the landscape and to memory in the town of Benalmádena on the Costa del Sol, Andalusia. Their work has added value to the landscape along the waterfront, which makes it more attractive to use.

19-02-2020

Beirut RiverLESS Urban Forest and how to regenerate a city

Since last year, Lebanese architecture studio theOtherDada and Afforestt, an Indian company that replants forests all over the world, have been planting trees from 17 native Lebanese species along the banks of the Beirut River. Concrete action to bring back the green and the city’s environmental quality as a consequence.

03-02-2020

Luuwit Park in Portland, Oregon by Skylab and 2.ink Studio

Skylab and the landscape architects from 2.ink Studio worked together and in close collaboration with Portland Parks and Recreation to redevelop and create this park in northeast Portland. The design team based their work on an integrated strategy that creates both passive native meadow areas that require limited maintenance and areas for intensively active program elements.

20-12-2019

Crystal Pool by 100architects: how to bring alive the public space

The designers from 100architects have completed Crystal Pool as part of a new mixed-use complex located in the rising international business centre in Pudong, Shanghai called New Bund. Invigorating public space plays an important part in the overall project because it fosters social interaction between users of all ages.

09-09-2019

2019 American Architecture Awards to Civitas and W for Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park in Tampa

The project in a challenged neighbourhood in West Tampa, Florida by Denver-based urban design and landscape architecture firm Civitas and W Architecture and Landscape Architecture of New York has netted not one but two 2019 American Architecture Awards for the designers.

30-08-2019

Zaha Hadid Architects Niederhafen River Promenade Hamburg

The firm Zaha Hadid Architects has designed Hamburg’s new riverside promenade. It is the city’s new landmark, a key feature of its urban design. A 625-metre-long promenade with an important function: the modernisation and reinforcement of the system that protects Hamburg from the floods of the Elbe river.