Design: UNStudio Client: Porto Antico di Genova Spa/ ALTAREA Italia Progetti S.r.l. Location: harbor Genova / Italy Building area: 76.000 m2 Program: 3 dimensional Piazza/ cruise terminal/ wellness Status/phase: design development phase image credits: UNStudio The Ponte Parodi project establishes a new city attractor based on the proliferation of experience. A three dimensional […]
Design: UNStudio Client: Porto Antico di Genova Spa/ ALTAREA Italia Progetti S.r.l. Location: harbor Genova / Italy Building area: 76.000 m2 Program: 3 dimensional Piazza/ cruise terminal/ wellness Status/phase: design development phase image credits: UNStudio The Ponte Parodi project establishes a new city attractor based on the proliferation of experience. A three dimensional […]
Landscape Architecture: Studio AKKA Architecture: A.BIRO Graphic design for public spaces: Studio Botas Consultancy: Ski-jumps: Klemen KOBAL Cross-country skiing: Uroš PONIKVAR Constructions: Vojko KILAR, FA Traffic: Špela SITAR, Tegainvest Water-management: Rok FAZARINC Light: ARCADIA LIGHTWEAR Competition: 2009 / details Location: Planica, Slovenija
Landscape Architecture: Claude Cormier Landscape Architects Location: Toronto, Canada Area: 4000m² Year: 2008-2010 – under construction Text&images: Claude Cormier Sugar Beach is the second urban beach proposed for Toronto’s downtown waterfront, and the latest addition to the amber necklace of Toronto’s lakefront beachscape. It is a sequel to HtO, the waterfront’s first beach […]
Design: Choi+Shine Winning entry of Unbuilt Architecture 2010 (Boston Society of Architects) ‘Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, Choi+Shine has created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn and variable. These iconic pylon-figures will become monuments in the landscape. Seeing the pylon- figures will become an unforgettable experience, elevating the […]
Landscape Architecture: Scapelab Project: Invisible Bridge Type: Comission Client: Private Year: 2010 Location: Bled, Slovenia Project team: Marko Studen, Matic Blatnik, Miha Brezavscek
Landscape Architecture: Atelier LOIDL The vastness of the harbour spaces are a luxury worth of preservation. A rhythm of precisely located spaces will be established, opening up for a sensual perception of the poetry of Wide. The robust simplicity suggested by the site generates places ready to adopt changing terms of use. The projectʻs spacial structure […]
Due to its exceptional location, the park will become an open-air museum of sorts, where the permanent exhibition on show is the city itself. The buildings immediately surrounding the park area reflect the full spectrum of Russian architecture from the 16th to 20th centuries: a life-size exhibition against a green backdrop.
Jonas Dahlberg: "An emotional observation informs my overall concept. During the initial site visit to Utøya, I noticed how different the feeling was of walking outside in nature, compared to the feeling of walking through the rooms of the main building. The experience of seeing the vacant rooms and the traces of extreme violence brought me—and others around me—to a state of profound sadness. In its current state, the building kept close within it the memory of the terror acts of July 22, 2011. Like an open wound."
Landscape Architecture : Mikou Design Studio Salwa Mikou, Selma Mikou, Cécile Jalby, Iskra Pencheva, Gwenaël Jerrett, Ludivine Specht Budget : 5 M € Surface: 10 000 m2 Location : Fez, Morocco Date : competition 2008 Renders&text: Mikoustudio Florence Square is situated in a strategic area in the new town of Fez. The square is structured […]
Sasaki was selected as the winning team for the international competition to redesign Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, China. Suzhou Creek (also known as the Wusong River) was historically one of Shanghai’s most vital water routes, but in recent decades suffered from unspeakable pollution and neglect. With a grant from the Asian Development Bank, the waterway […]
TLS: The City of Suzhou, China has announced TLS Landscape Architecture, Berkeley, California as the winner of the Lion Mountain Park Design Competition. The new 74-hectare urban park, built on the grounds of an old amusement park and pond, is anchored by Shishan (Lion) Mountain. The park will become the key amenity of the newly-developing […]
Perkins+Will: Physically linking the continents of Europe and Asia, the Bridge has the potential to be a catalyst for public enrichment throughout the region, connecting people with their heritage, with nature, and with each other. On either side of the Bosphorus, extensive forest land serves as a natural tapestry containing quaint fishing villages, historic ruins, […]
The Copenhagen-based architectural firm SLA wins the Nordic Built Cities Challenge Award – Scandinavia’s largest and most prestigious architecture competition. SLA wins the award for a nature-based climate adaptation of Inner Copenhagen that shows the way forward for using nature to create better and more livable cities. Thursday November 3rd, the winner of Scandinavia’s largest […]
Toronto-based design firm Office OU has been announced as the winner of South Korea’s International Competition for the National Museum Complex Master Plan of the New Administrative City (Sejong City). Chosen as the winning design among a field of 81 entries from 26 countries around the world, Office OU’s Sejong Museum Gardens will play a […]
OMGEVING: The city of Da Nang is located in central Vietnam and consists of five districts. These districts cover a total surface area of 1,250 km² and have a total population of about one million inhabitants. The city of Da Nang, characterized by its two coastlines along the East Sea and the Han River Delta […]
DELVA Landscape Architects, together with a multidisciplinary team lead by ION, presents the dynamic masterplan for the redevelopment of the Sugar Factory site in Veurne, Belgium. The name for the large scale redevelopment plan will be ‘Sugar Park’; A name that refers to the transformation of monofunctional industry that the site had until 2005, to […]
LLONAZAMORA: The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, located in Cusco, is the most iconic site of Peru. This UNESCO historical and cultural heritage of humanity receives 2500 visitors per day. The imminent erosion caused by the high number tourist activity has lead the Peruvian government to promote site conservation strategies. Given this scenario, in 2014 […]
LOLA: Discontinued salt production makes the future existence of the Solana Ulcinj as a wildlife sanctuary uncertain, even though the area is of great value for countless species of birds that cross the Adriatic Sea on route of the Adriatic Flyway. Salt, nutrient rich, shallow water resulted in the massive presence of birds in the […]
Landscape architect Grant Associates has won an international competition to create a new 41 hectare city park for Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City (TJEC) in northern China. Occupying a central location in Tianjin Eco-City on the Gu Dao Canal, the design vision for Friendship Park is a park that welcomes visitors of all ages, celebrating the friendship […]
Sasaki: The Yangtze is Asia’s longest river and drains one-fifth of China’s land area. Revered as the “mother river,” it has nurtured China’s history, culture, and economy since the dawn of civilisation. This relationship between the people and the river has, in recent years, grown tense. Despite unprecedented advancements in engineering, all major cities on […]