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9th European Prize for Urban Public Space awarded

Two very different projects won this year’s European Prize for Urban Public Space: Both open up and revitalise previously unused public space.

have shared this year’s European Prize for Urban Public Space: The Przełomy Centre for Dialogue at Solidarnosc Square in Poland by Robert Konieczny and the Recovery of the Irrigation System at the Thermal Orchards located on the edge of the town of Caldes de Montbui in Spain, by Marta Serra, Elena Albareda and Jordi Calbetó.

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Living University in Shanghai, China

gmp and KCAP in cooperation with landscape architects Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl won the competition for Zhanjiang Science and Technology City in Shanghai.

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Windmills Park, Alaçatı, Turkey

The Alaçatı Windmills Park and Entrance Square and Promenade Project by Turkish architects UrbAr is part of a comprehensive urban renewal project of the city.

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An Unnecessary Waste Of Money

The Garden Bridge in London: little use for the public, a strange competition-process, unreasonably high costs. Rachel Holdsworth on why the bridge should be let go.

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Nordhavn Islands Project

The design for Nordhavn Islands by Danish architects C.F. Møller Landscape proposes a new unique space for Copenhagen.

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National Gallery of Denmark

Based on their winning proposal from 2011, Dutch landscape architects Karres+Brands redesigned the garden for the Statens Museum for Kunst.

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A Park in the Cellar

The Lowline in New York tests the feasibility of the underground park. If the project is actually built, it would have yet another attraction.

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Adaptive Planning

The new football stadium and the riverbank park are a direct result of the master plan for Bordeaux by Michel Designee Paysagiste.

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Open City – Open Space

In Chicago, the new Maggie Daley Park and Chicago Riverwalk exemplify the trend for cities to build high-profile works of landscape architecture.

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Gentle Interventions

Through the design of Fortunes Architects and Østengen and Bergo Landscape Architects, the Skjervsfossen Waterfall can now be experienced in many ways.

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How to Survive in Moscow

Public space was long a non-issue in Moscow. It was not until 2010, with the removal of mayor Yuri Luzhkov that a change began.

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Arrival City

Doug Saunders’ book “Arrival City – How the largest migration in history is reshaping the world” focuses on the shift of human population from rural areas to cities

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Perspectives on Ecology and Design

The book Projective Ecologies opens up a new chapter in the discussion on the relationship between landscape architecture and ecological sciences.

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The City as Interface

Does the implementation of new media technologies enable emancipation and new forms of social participation? Or is “surveillance” the defining motive?

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The Crisis of Planning

„New Orleans Under Reconstruction: The Crisis of Planning“ gives an insight into the challenges of urban planning today.

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Superkilen, Copenhagen

A new book recently published welcomes the challenges raised by the Superkilen neighbourhood park by Topotek 1 in Nørrebro, Copenhagen.

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The Landscapes of Kongjian Yu

Kongjian Yu certainly is by far the best-known landscape architect from the People’s Republic of China. With Designed Ecologies he published a review on his Landscape Architecture.

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