Chelsea Flower Show Garden London

Chelsea Flower Show Garden

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.

Tagus Linear Park in Póvoa de Santa Iria

Tagus Linear Park

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.

Helmond Station Building, Netherlands

Station Helmond

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.

New Public Realm for Arena Central in Birmingham

Arena Centra

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

Familistère in Guise, France Building

Familistere in Guise 6

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

Hothouse at the Botanical Gardens in Aarhus

Hothouse at the Botanical Gardens in Aarhus

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 Center

Potrero Heights Community & Senior Center

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.

Zaryadye Park Moscow Design Competition

Zaryadye Park Competition, Moscow

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).

Ianus – Tombolo-Padua

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.

Gardens by the Bay Conservatories Singapore

Gardens by the Bay Conservatories Singapore - Biomes

Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore Wins World Building of the Year at World Architecture Festival Awards 2012: Largest climate-controlled glasshouses in the world help transform Singapore into a ‘City in a Garden’.

Oystermen Kinmen Island Project, Taiwan

Kinmen Island Oystermen

Oystermen is an environmental artwork at a tidal beach in Kinmen Island, Taiwan. The men are standing 6 meters high from the sand surface during low tide and are walking on water 3 meters high on top of waves as the ocean deepens on high tide.

Union Terrace Gardens Proposals Aberdeen

Union Terrace Gardens Proposals

New Union Terrace Gardens Proposals, a major renovation, unveiled: Architects Halliday Fraser Munro, working with Aberdeen City Council, has come up with a design which would see the gardens partly raised but remain sunken