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Invisible Bridge | By ScapeLab for a design competition in Slovenia
In 1993 the city council of Solingen, an industrial town in central Germany, decided to create a new quarter, composed of the municipal buildings, housing, shops, gastronomy and offices. To receive innovative solutions for a new kind of municipal district the city of Solingen advertised an architectural / landscape architectural competition.
The winning design defines the whole area as an urban landscape, a perceptibly continuous public space.
LandscapeArchitecture.org attended another great event, The High-Performance Landscapes #4: Think Globally, Design Locally, Quantify the Benefits presented by The New York Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects. Barbara Deutsch, ASLA, Executive Director of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF), and Greg Searle, Executive Director of BioRegional North America, provided in-depth lessons on achieving and quantifying sustainable landscapes.
A very exciting new resource, amongst many others presented by both Greg and Barbara, is offered in the Landscape Architecture Foundations named Landscape Performance Series. It offers an indepth and comprehensive resource for project analysis helping better quantify a project's value.
Like a pool of water reflecting the sky, placed at the castle of Ehrenbreitstein, creates a flux of images incorporating the walls and building. Creating a heightened experience of its surroundings, it involves the beholder in a game of perception, intriguing to find the «right» view of the motif.
Bringing Life to the Center: The Aberdeen City Garden Competition
A sunken bridge across a moat in the Netherlands wins Public Facilities Award
Historically, defence lines across the Netherlands have protected the region’s inhabitants from enemy attacks and surprise invasions. As time has passed and the threat of impromptu raids has dwindled, these significant monuments have been transformed into family attractions with cycling routes and hiking trails.
A modest intervention by Dutch architecture firm RO&AD architecten on the West Brabant Water Line has closed the gap between the sites significant past uses and its new potential as a leisure facility. A sunken bridge has been inserted across a moat that surrounds the fortress at the West Brabant Water Line, dipping below the water line and seeming invisible when viewed from far away.
Gensler's London office helped create a brand-new river park along the north bank of the River Thames, which would enhance London’s reputation as the most exciting city in the world and create a river walk that, along with the Millennium Bridge, connects St Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London and the Tate…
Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, of Haas + Hahn, have created a spectacular project helping create identity to the Community of Santa Maria, a favela in the heart of Rio de Janeiro. They used a flexible concept of colourful rays which can easily be expanded, we made a design for the houses around the square and part of the street, including the local Sambaschool.
A group of local inhabitants where instructed by trainers from TintasCoral as part of the project "Tudo de Cor para Santa Marta."
As a result about 7000 square meters of hillside slum was converted into an new monument for the community. Their goal is to attract enough funds to paint the entire hillside favela.
The Navy Pier, Inc. Board selected design firm James Corner Field Operations to redesign Chicago's Navy Pier. The New York-based firm beat out more than 50 submissions from around the world.
Square Four (renamed Samir Kassir Square in 2006) is a small, more or less rectangular, public space that occupies a site of 815 square metres in the heart of the Beirut Central Business District (CBD).
The square's design responds to an abstract conception of the area, where the space itself, its materiality, its sounds, light quality, and even smells become its essential constituent elements. It is a space thought of as an escape from the city bustle while sited at the core of the city itself. A serene space that allows the city to speak about itself and its memory through the reflection of its skyline, with its mosques and churches, on the water surface, always sheltered by the two majestic ficus trees.
Olympic Park Legacy Company has announced the winners of two competitions that will transform the north park and south plaza at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.