MAX IV Laboratory Landscape in Lund by Snøhetta

The MAX IV Laboratory Landscape Design

MAX IV is a national laboratory operated jointly by the Swedish Research Council and Lund University. The synchrotron facility is created by FOJAB architects, and Snøhetta architects has designed the 19 hectares landscape park.

The Hills on Governors Island, New York

The Hills on Governors Island NY

Design: West 8 urban design & landscape architecture. The de Blasio Administration, Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and the Trust for Governors Island announce The Hills on Governors Island are open to the public, adding 10 new acres of public space for the City of New York.

Nenagh Leisure Centre and Town Park in Tipperary

Nenagh Leisure Centre and Town Park

Design: ABK Architects. The project involved the renewal and reorientation of the building to address the new park to the east and the creation of an entrance that reconciled the different functions of Swimming with Gymnasium and Aerobics.

Open Gate Art Platform in Suncheon, Korea

Open Gate Art Platform

Design: Matteo Cainer Architects. The proposal for the new Suncheon Art Platform is strategically placed amidst historical and cultural trails of the old Suncheon Wall, acting thus as a new cultural hub and gateway for the Old City.

High Line Park New York Section 2, Manhattan

High Line New York

New photos: Doubling the Length of the Park, New Section Spurs Development, Features New Public Art, Family Activities, and Community Events, and Connects Three Neighborhoods along Manhattan’s West Side.

Lines of Life Singapore Park, Nikken Sekkei

Lines of Life Singapore Park

Architect: Nikken Sekkei, Architects. Singapore is set to have its own ‘low line’ version of New York’s famous High Line, but 10 times as long, with 24km of disused rail corridor transformed as parkland. 122 access points connect back into major roads, transport hubs and new urban development.

FAB Park in Downtown Los Angeles, Public Space

FAB Park in Downtown Los Angeles

Design: OMA, architects / Mia Lehrer + Associates / IDEO. Team selected to design a new public park at First and Broadway for the City’s Department of Recreation and Parks, and soon to be one of the most important civic spaces in the city’s vibrant downtown core.

Circle Square Development Manchester

Circle Square Development

Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. The vision for Oxford Road’s new neighbourhood is closer to realisation after joint venture partners Select Property Group and Bruntwood were given planning permission for the biggest planning application of the scheme.

Horse Park in Yeongcheon, South Korea

Horse Park

Design: The Evolved Architectural Eclectic Limited. ‘Nature-friendly theme park’ for humans and horses, designed by the architects as a total paradigm shift from traditional horse-racing culture to horse-race-meets-theme-park.

Helensburgh Town Centre Public Realm design

Helensburgh pier Scotland

Design: Austin-Smith:Lord, architects. Helensburgh’s revitalised town centre public realm has been recognised by another national award – a short-listing in the forthcoming Scottish Design Awards which will be announced in May.

Central Park New York, Manhattan

Plaza Hotel New York building

The park resulted from a design competition in 1857. It contains a zoo and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The park initially opened in 1857, on 778 acres of city-owned land (it is now 840 acres in area).

Paiva Walkways Arouca, River Paths

Paiva Walkways

Design: Arouca municipality and engineer company Trimetrica. Embracing the Paiva river this is a new walking path with breathtaking natural beauty, picturesque landscapes, waterfalls and a variety of fauna and flora species.