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Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park is phase one of a larger master plan that encompasses the transformation of 29 acres of post-industrial waterfront on the East River in Long Island City and includes the largest affordable housing building project in New York City since the 1970’s.
The Woods Bagot San Francisco studio collaborated with landscape architects Surfacedesign, Inc to unveil design for Mesa City Center, ‘Mesa Central’, an engaging and dynamic civic park designed to catalyze the rise of the city’s downtown Main Street district as a year-round urban destination.
The Ravelijn “Op den Zoom” is a fortress-island of the city of Bergen op Zoom in The Netherlands which is made in the beginning of the 18th century by Menno van Coehoorn, a famous fortress builder.
We must make sure that our cities offer a generous framework for different people – from different backgrounds, economy, gender, culture, education and age – so they can live together in harmony while taking into account individual needs as well as the common good. Nowhere is this challenge more acrimonious than in a zoo.
Design: Kjellander + Sjöberg Architects. K + S’ proposal the Trädgårdsstaden, Garden City in Helsingborg, has won the land transfer competition for Ringstorp in Helsingborg, issued by the municipality of Helsingborg, with developers Sundprojekt and Strabag.
The piazza which lies at the heart of the project sits astride two pre-existing axial routes, and alongside six storey tenement style housing with shops built there in the 1950s and 60s. the intervention by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) takes the form of an ensemble of buildings.
Design: Hall McKnight
The opportunity to design Vartov Square or Alms-House Square in Copenhagen was won by Hall McKnight in an international design competition held in 2009.
Design: Alistair Baldwin. In honour of the Grand Départ of the Tour de France taking place in Yorkshire, this year’s Welcome to Yorkshire garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show was designed to celebrate both a cycling theme and the beautifully diverse landscapes of the county.
Landscape design by Architect Filipa Figueira and Architect Tiago Vieirao. The Tagus Linear Park is an area of 15 000 sq m that was conquered by the surrounding communities of the industrial private sector and was felt as a democratic intervention by those forever deprived of access to the River.
Design: studioSK, Movares
How to create a meaningful station environment in an era in which the classical station typology is evaporating? Modern travelling, being almost immaterial, has become ‘traveling light’: no need to buy tickets anymore, paying with your cell phone, high frequent intensities of train systems preventing you to wait for long.
Landscape Architects: Gillespies. The design for the public realm of the 9.2 acre site breaks away from the conventional institutional finishes found on many mixed-use city centre schemes, with 40% of the space given over to soft landscaping
Design: h2o architectes. The Familistère is a vast housing complex founded by Jean-Baptiste André Godin in 1859 in relation with the stove manufacturing business. Until 1968, this Social Palace was the theatre of a unique social experimentation in the industrial world
Heated conservatory at the Botanical Gardens, Aarhus, Denmark, design by C. F. Møller Architekten – transparent roofing made of ETFE foil cushions with an interior pneumatic shading system planned by formTL and C. F. Møller Architekten the building “is like a drop of dew in its green surroundings”.
Los Angeles Public Park + Community & Senior Center, California, USA – Lehrer Architects is honored to announce that Spring Street Park and Potrero Heights Community & Senior Center are both nominated for a Best of Year Award, by Interior Design magazine. Both architecture projects are national finalists in the “Outdoor” category.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro wins Zaryadye Park competition. In Moscow, on the 12th November 2013, the winner was announced for the international competition to develop the landscaping and architectural concept of Zaryadye Park. This was the consortium headed by the architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York).
Diamond Schmitt Architects receive the Interior Green Wall Award of Excellence at the CitiesAlive Conference for an innovative campus building at Drexel University in Philadelphia. NEDLAW Living Walls is co-recipient of the honour that recognizes the advancement of sustainable design
Ianus is a decorative stone tub/fountain for indoor or outdoor use. The tub is the result of a digital simulative design and CNC fabrication with a 6 axis robot, milled from a monolithic block of Gray Shadow stone, caved in Turkey.