Esplanada Forum Building Barcelona

Esplanada Forum Building Barcelona

Sculptural concrete with simple plane of photovoltaics floating off four fair-faced concrete supports. The Pérgola fotovoltaica na esplanada Fórum also contains at the lower level a series of timber stuctures that were closed when I visited.

Florence Square – Fez Building, Morocco

Florence Square, Fez: situated in a strategic area in the new town of Fez. The square is structured by a main urban axis, a broad boulevard with a central island generating an important pedestrian flow.

Kikuchi pocket park, Japan: Kumamoto

Three small parks are made in an old downtown with a long history. The history and the environment (region) each place are made a clue, and we try the creation of an architectural experiment and a new landscape.

Duplantier Volunteer Pavilion New Orleans

Duplantier Volunteer Pavilion New Orleans park

The Duplantier Volunteer Pavilion is located in the New Orleans Botanical Garden in City Park. After the devastating storms of 2005 a number Cypress trees in City Park were uprooted

Imperial War Museum North Landscape – IWMN

The design for a pedestrian promenade and public realm area in front of Imperial War Museum North by London-based FoRM Associates has been granted full planning permission on behalf of Peel Media by Trafford council.

Breakwater Beacon: KAUST Thuwal Point

Breakwater Beacon: KAUST Thuwal Point

Urban Art Projects (UAP) has completed the 60 metre high ‘Breakwater Beacon’, the centre piece of a new US$7 billion world-class research institution for KAUST located at Thuwal Point.

Wieringen Passage, Dutch Landscape: Strootman

Wieringen is very old and was, up to 1930, an island. The design for the Wieringen Passage once again turns the former island of Wieringen into the sole boulder clay island of the Netherlands, with offshore sandbanks providing space for the development of recreational facilities and housing.

Striding Arches – Andy Goldsworthy Scotland

Striding Arches by Andy Goldsworthy Scotland

Andy Goldsworthy’s red sandstone arches, stride the wild and unspoilt landscape of the Scottish Southern Uplands, creating a unique sense of place and interpreting a little known area of the country. They offer a dialogue between structure and place and history and the landscape.

West Bank Wall – Israel World Heritage Site

It’s a mistake to say that heritage has to be nice, I think the painful aspects of heritage can be quite important too because you need to confront those, in order to come to terms with your past.

Landscape Architects Pocket Book, Publication

Landscape Architect’s Pocket Book by Siobhan Vernon, Rachel Tennant and Nicola Garmory is a new book for landscape architects and related professions. It has established itself as an indispensable and essential guide.

Irwell City Park Manchester public realm

A high-profile design team, comprising Broadway Malyan, FoRM Associates and Gifford, has been appointed to take forward proposals for Irwell City Park – the transformation of an 8km stretch of the River Irwell in Manchester

Croton Water Filtration Plant – New York Building

Croton Water Filtration Plant, Bronx Building, Project, Photo, News, Design, Image Croton Water Filtration Plant New York : Architecture Bronx Development, New York, USA – design Grimshaw, architects Feb 27, 2009 Croton Water Filtration Plant Above Ground Buildings and Landscape Bronx, New York, USA 2009- Design: Grimshaw Client: New York City Department of Environmental Protection … Read more