22. May 2013 /
Margie Ruddick receives US National Design Award for Landscape Architecture
The winners of the 2013 US National Design Awards, which recognize excellence and innovation across a variety of disciplines, were recently announced. The 2013 Cooper-Hewitt National Award Winner for Landscape Architecture is Margie Ruddick. She is recognized for her pioneering, environmental approach to urban landscape design, forging a design language that integrates ecology, urban planning and culture. Garnering numerous awards during a 25-year career, Ruddick fosters the idea of nature in...
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Recent Issues
Recent Issues
16. May 2013 / Karsten Jørgensen
Landscape architect Bjarne Aasen turns 80
Bjarne Aasen was born in Melhus at Trondheim in 1933. He has been involved in landscape-related professions since 1950, when he began working as an apprentice gardener at the Tomb Agricultural School in Østfold, south of Oslo. Aasen has observed and made significant contributions to the great development the Norwegian landscape has undergone for more than sixty years. From being a very small profession of about 50 practitioners, landscape architecture has grown manyfold, and today more than...
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13. May 2013 /
IABR–2014– Urban by Nature– Call for Projects
The sixth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, IABR–2014–URBAN BY NATURE–, opens in May 2014 in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. The Dutch landscape architect Dirk Sijmons is the curator and the theme is Urban by Nature.
IABR-2014-URBAN BY NATURE- claims that we can only resolve the environmental problems of the world if we resolve the problems of the city. Looking through the lens of landscape architecture, IABR-2014 aims to redefine the city and urbanity, to analyze the...
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06. May 2013 /
Winners of Borderless: Designing Future ASEAN Borders
The winning schemes have recently been announced for the Borderless: Designing Future ASEAN Borders international design competition.
“In order to achieve "borderless", we must understand the space of the borders themselves.” - Luke Yeung
The competition brings attention to the spaces along the borders of the 10 ASEAN nations, with the aim of improving their existing conditions. The jury selected three winning designs and three honorable mentions out of 200 submissions from over 30...
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01. May 2013 /
Fuksas wins Baricentrale Railway Competition, Italy
Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas along with Jordi Henrich i Monràs have won the international design competition for the railway area "Baricentrale." The competition launched by the Municipality of Bari, aimed to promote the transformation of the city, using the reorganization of the railway area which has long acted as a rift that cuts through the city as the starting point for its transformation. The site of the project stretches over an area of 78 hectares, which is divided into 7...
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19. April 2013 /
European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden
Danish landscape architects SLA, together with a team consisting of Henning Larsen Architects and COBE, have won the design competition for the new European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. The project will be the world’s largest and most advanced research facility for neutron-based research and is a joint European project with a total of 17 countries participating in the project.
SLA has designed the 760,000 m2 large landscape that mixes campus building, security, coherency, climate...
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17. April 2013 /
Designing the Healthy Main Street, Syracuse, New York
A team led by Stoss Landscape Urbanism, including Höweler + Yoon Architecture, Nitsch Engineering, and Angie Cradock ScD, MPE has recently been selected as the winning design team for the Movement on Main: Designing the Healthy Main Street competition in Syracuse, New York.
Movement on Main seeks to tie together the investments being made on Wyoming Street as a part of the revitalization of Syracuse’s traditionally impoverished Near Westside neighborhood. Stoss‘s proposal “Light - Play!”...
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14. April 2013 /
LOLA Landscape Architects win Maaskant Prize 2013
The Rotterdam based landscape architecture practice LOLA have recently been awarded the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for Young Architects 2013. The 5,000 € prize is intended to lift the public profile of young Dutch offices (with architects under the age of 36) and is awarded every two years on the recommendation of a jury.
LOLA (LOst LAndscapes) was founded in 2006 by Eric-Jan Pleijster, Cees van der Veeken and Peter Veenstra. The firm has worked on both conceptual and implementation-orientated...
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11. April 2013 /
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award 2013 goes to Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles
The Portuguese landscape architect Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles is the winner of the Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award 2013, the premier award of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles has made an outstanding contribution to Landscape Architecture through his life-long commitment to his chosen profession. His achievement in all aspects of landscape architecture, landscape planning, landscape policies, landscape design and landscape education has been quite...
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04. April 2013 / Adrienne Heflich
New Housing Models Proposed for New York City
The adAPT NYC Competition and “Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers” exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York address shared aims: to improve the quality and lower the costs of housing available to New York’s changing population. Design contributions to both vary in scale and ambition but respond to a central demographic disconnect. While only 1.5% of housing ready for occupancy is studios and one-bedrooms, single adults make up nearly half of the city’s residents. How is this...
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