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International Ideas Competition Reinventing Our Rivers
Four Rivers, Three Winners: The City of Québec has presented the three winning teams in the Reinventing Our Rivers competition. An international jury, led by architect Jandrik Hoesktra from the Netherlands, was assembled to select the winners.
Singapore High Line Park Landscape
Singapore ‘low line’ version of New York’s famous High Line, but 10 times as long, with 24km of disused rail corridor transformed as public parkland, design by Nikken Sekkei Architects.
Oman Botanic Garden Buildings
The site is one of only a few locations in the world where the ancient sea bed is still visible after tectonic activity elevated the bed to a 100 metres above sea level. Arup and Grimshaw have worked with the existing natural ridges and ravines.
Sanbaopeng Art Museum in Jingdezhen
Designed by Architects DL Atelier Sanbao, Art Museum is located in Sanbao village, a scenic place not far from the Central City of Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of China. In the past decade, porcelain artists were attracted here to build their own studios.
Green Urban Housing in Vienna
As the result of an invited competition GERNER GERNER PLUS recently completed a residential building with the Wolfshof in the twelfth urban district of Vienna that offers residents not only top-quality living space but also a spacious communal courtyard with “Naschgarten” – “snack garden”.
Penghu Qingwan Cactus Park in Taiwan
Penghu Qingwan Cactus Park has been transformed by CCL Architects & Planners from the important military base in the past to the new tourist attraction.
Ashburnham Primary School Playground London
Foster + Partners, Architects designed the new children’s playground at Ashburnham Community School in West London which opened to shrieks of delight, as the children got a first taste of the recently transformed school grounds.
Filton Airfield Masterplan Gloucestershire
Approval for masterplan of 2,675 new homes, 62 acres of employment & industrial space, 3 new schools, community facilities, a new railway station at a former airfield in north Bristol.
Adelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland landscape
TCL’s Adelaide’s Botanic Gardens Wetland has won the 2017 Sustainability Award for Landscape and Urban Design. The Wetland is a highly urbanised waterway near the centre of Adelaide.
Gasklockan in Hjorthagen, Stockholm Landscape
Piet Oudolf and LOLA landscape architects are designing the landscape around Gasklockan in Hjorthagen, located northeast of Stockholm. The beautiful old gasometers, left by the industry as a collection of built objects, is like a family of strangers.
Jubilee Bridge in Singapore Marina Bay
The design concept by Cox Architecture was to create an elegant sweeping glistening ribbon pathway counterpoised and referenced to the water spray from the 8.6m high Merlion statue in Marina Bay.
Mirante House in São Paulo Property
Designed by FGMF Arquitetos Casa Mirante has strong modernist roots, which include the intensive use of brise-soleil, free plant and facade, also proposing relations with the view, nature and gardens.
Gustafson Porter + Bowman Landscape Architects
Gustafson Porter + Bowman news – Taikoo Place, Hong Kong, will create an inclusive open public space with lush native vegetation and sculptural water features.
House of Green Gables in Sydney
This contemporary reconfiguration, by Anton Kouzmin Architecture, of a Victorian terrace overlooks a new roof garden. The garden follows the traditional gabled roof form and serves as an external link to the tree canopy of the adjacent pocket park.
La Grange Pavilion in Texas, Colorado River
La Grange Pavilion was designed, by Murray Legge Architecture, as part of a landscape intervention for a house perched on a bluff overlooking the forest and farmland of Colorado River basin seventy miles east of Austin.
Westlake Pool House in Ohio property
Situated in the City of West Lake Hills, Ohio, USA, this pool house, swimming pool, spa, and terraced landscape use a unique sustainable design strategy employed by Murray Legge Architecture. Impervious cover and storm water run-off regulations within the city are very restrictive.