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Landscaping Green Architecture
Landscaping and urban design because public spaces are becoming more and more important in architecture.
19-07-2023 - Landscaping
U / U Studio designs Řeporyje Skatepark in Prague
A leisure park intended for a variety of different ages and social spheres, redefining the concept of public space: U / U Studio designed Řeporyje Skatepark, transforming what was until then a vacant area in a predominantly residential neighbourhood in western Prague.
14-06-2023 - Landscaping
NODE Architecture & Urbanism (NODE) designs the Shenzhen Lotus Water Culture Base
The NODE Architecture & Urbanism (NODE) studio founded by Doreen Heng Liu designed the restored surface landscape above the water purification plant and the related underground offices of the Shenzhen Lotus Water Culture Base complex, located within a municipal lotus-themed park in Luohu District, Shenzhen, China.
12-04-2023 - Landscaping
Vltavská Underground, transformation of an urban non-place
The architects of U / U studio and re_place worked on revitalisation of a classic non-place in the city: an underpass in a Prague metro station. Vltavská Underground had already become a mecca for street artists, and is now a public space inviting freestyle sports activities.
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03-05-2022 - Landscaping
The Vanished House by Hu Quanchun
"The Vanished House" by Hu Quanchun of Field Confirming Studio is an artwork created for the second East Lake International Ecological Sculpture Biennale, held in Wuhan in 2021. The exhibition was held in Wuhan Shimenfeng Memorial Park, a cemetery in a beautiful natural setting with a serene, tranquil atmosphere.
21-04-2022 - Landscaping
Battleiroig redesigns a Barcelona cemetery
Multidisciplinary studio Battleiroig worked on Roques Blanques Metropolitan Cemetery in Collserola Nature Park in El Papiol, Barcelona. Cluster number 6 of the cemetery’s 7 clusters, designed as a 122-hectare garden, was developed on the basis of a respect for and conservation of the environment, offering new ways of remembering the dead.
19-04-2022 - Landscaping
Kossmanndejong at Floriade in Almere with The Voice of Urban Nature
On the occasion of Floriade Expo 2022, the world horticulture exhibition in Almere, in the Netherlands, creative studio Kossmanndejong and Overtreders W, Onkruidenier and Joost Emmerik designed The Voice of Urban Nature pavilion for the cities of Amsterdam and Almere. The pavilion, the gardens and the exhibition are a single unit showing how we can all live together: people, animals, plants, trees and microbes.
08-04-2022 - Landscaping
Yogapoints, sports placemaking by Studio KLAR
How to create quality public space responding to the requirements of the Strategic Plan of the Region of Moravia-Slesia? By combining practicality and beauty in an architectural structure benefiting users: Yogapoints, by Czech architectural studio KLAR.
28-03-2022 - Landscaping
Town Enclosure, art installation by CLB Architects
Town Enclosure is an art installation designed by CLB Architects and commissioned by Jackson Hole Public Art. The project was conceived as a meeting place and can be used in a variety of ways, both formal and spontaneous, to foster artistic experiences en plein air.
25-03-2022 - Landscaping
Land05 and S K U L L, park revitalisation in Prague
A park in Čakovice, in the Czech Republic, has undergone a regeneration project to better integrate the green area into the Prague neighbourhood around it. The project is implemented by landscape architecture studio Land05, directed by Martina Forejtová, while S K U L L studio designed the Superpower Wall, an art project on the wall marking the park’s southern boundary.
