16. May 2012 /
Call for submissions: Urban Quality Award 2012
Since 2006, Eurohypo Bank and Topos Magazine have awarded prizes for successful examples of urban development. This year's Urban Quality Award (formerly the International Urban Landscape Award) focuses particularly on urban spaces and neighbourhoods in Germany and France that provide public benefits and are regarded as amenities by the population.
The Urban Quality Award will, then, honour urban planning and architecture that positively influences the experience of public space. The...
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Recent Issues
Recent Issues
14. May 2012 /
The Topos Landscape Award 2012 goes to Taktyk!
This is the first time that Topos – The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design has awarded the Topos Landscape Award to a practice hailing from the French-speaking world. Thierry Kandjee and Sébastien Penfornis are partners in the transnational, multidisciplinary practice Taktyk, who direct a team of 11. Sébastien Penfornis (39) is an Architect & Urban Designer and leads their Paris studio. He also gives guest lectures and conducts research on the topic of serendipity...
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14. May 2012 / Robert Schäfer
Airport BER remains a construction site | Topos conference more relevant than ever
On the 5th of June at Berlin-Tempelhof Topos is holding the conference "Follow Me: Berlin and its Airports" on the future of Tegel, Tempelhof & Gatow, as well as discussing strategic urban-strategies relevant to these redundant airports.
Fire safety, noise and (as we recently discovered) poor project management issues won't feature heavily in our debates, but rather the conversion plans for these sites, and the wider implications for the city of Berlin. This is a broad topic which has never...
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03. May 2012 /
Follow Me: Berlin's Airports
03. May 2012 / Jessica Bridger
5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: Making City
“Making city is the principal imperative of our times,” became like a rally cry during the opening week of the fifth installment of Rotterdam’s International Architecture Biennale (IABR). This operative claim about the production of urban environments is addressed in a broad range of ways at the various sites, exhibits and events at the Biennale.
The IABR was composed by eight curators under the direction of George Brugmans. It runs the gamut in presence, relevance and quality, across...
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26. April 2012 /
Rosa Barba Prize 2012 - deadline extended!
The new deadline for presenting the project documentations is 11 May. To participate in the Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize, one of the profession's most renowned awards, you can register your project via the organizers' website. The award honors extraordinary projects in the fields of landscape architecture and planning created in Europe from 2007 to 2012. The award is given every two years within the framework of the European Landscape Biennial. The 7th edition is currently in the...
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19. April 2012 /
Photo and video contest: Landscapes in Transition
"Landscapes In Transition" is not just the topic of the IFLA World Congress 2012 in Cape Town in September but also the topic of this year Landscape Architecture Month celebrated in April. IFLA is interested in photographs and videos that show “Landscapes In Transition” of everyday life. IFLA is looking for informal and spontaneous landscapes in transition made by communities or individuals which show how they deal with a changing world. Inspiration needed?
“All landscapes are in various...
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03. April 2012 /
Out now: Topos 78 Culturescapes
We would like to announce the release of our latest issue, Topos 78 Culturescapes: Cities are cultural constructs by definition, created to fulfil the vital functions of society. This issue is concerned with new projects that add something to the city. In Oslo an opera house has given a new impetus to a neighbourhood and created a new category of urban space. Culturescapes can take the form of a square, like in a multifunctional space in Innsbruck, or a park in Copenhagen, where the aim was...
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03. April 2012 /
International Garden Competition “best private plots 12”
For the fifth time, the best private gardens from all over the world are honoured in the open international competition “best private plots 12.” The prize acknowledges exceptional achievements in the design of sustainable private outdoor spaces and gardens as a space for creative expression and action, and as contemporary dialogue between architecture, ecology, and landscape. The award's criteria include: idea, artistic and conceptual quality, ecological quality, use of plants and materials,...
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03. April 2012 /
Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize
The Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize will be announced during the 7th European Landscape Biennial which will take place on September 27 and 28 in Barcelona. The Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize is open to all kind of landscape architecture and planning projects created in Europe since 2007. Deadline for presenting the project documentation online is April 30.
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