Topos - THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN

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Living with a Giant – Pt. IV

The fourth part of the Pando series – the tree that is a forest
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Living with a Giant – Pt. IV

The fourth part of the Pando series – the tree that is a forest
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The Bow

Cyrille Dubreuil frames industrial halls and gives an insight into this logistic landscapes
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The Bow

Cyrille Dubreuil frames industrial halls and gives an insight into this logistic landscapes
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This land is our land

The works of Cuban artist Ana Mendieta are about identity, home and nature.
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This land is our land

The works of Cuban artist Ana Mendieta are about identity, home and nature.
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Pink Jungle in Zurich

Installation for the Zurich Festival in Magenta
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Pink Jungle in Zurich

Installation for the Zurich Festival in Magenta
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Borrowed Building

Dutch architects from SLA and Overtreders W developed a building whose materials were borrowed.
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Borrowed Building

Dutch architects from SLA and Overtreders W developed a building whose materials were borrowed.
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Dinner in Antwerp’s Savannah

Antwerp Zoo offers a new attraction: a restaurant in the midst of the animals, designed by Studio Farris Architects
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Dinner in Antwerp’s Savannah

Antwerp Zoo offers a new attraction: a restaurant in the midst of the animals, designed by Studio Farris Architects
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The Decelerator

The artist and architect André Lemmens portrays urban space
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The Decelerator

The artist and architect André Lemmens portrays urban space
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A Pedestrian Zone Called London

“Walkable London” by Zaha Hadid Architects: wide areas in the central city should turn into pedestrian zones
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A Pedestrian Zone Called London

“Walkable London” by Zaha Hadid Architects: wide areas in the central city should turn into pedestrian zones
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FLOATING UNIVERSITY: SCIENCE ON THE WATER

Since the beginning of January, the rainwater reservoir of the former airfield Tempelhof in Berlin has become a laboratory for new urban praxis. Designed by architectural collective “raumlaborberlin”, it is home to the “Floating University Berlin” for five months and creates a space for the collective production of knowledge. In its generic structure made from […]

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Barrels for London

From June 18 on, the sculpture “The Mastaba” by Christo will be visitable in London’s Hyde Park. It’s the first large-size installation by the Bulgarian-born artist in Great Britain.

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New Dimension of Roof Greening

With the Planar House, Studio MK27 raised roof greening to the next level. The 1,000-square-meter roof is barely identifiable as part of a building.

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Living with a Giant – Pt. I

The first part of Paul C. Rogers’ Pando series is about the origin of pando and the investigation of its sexual reproduction by scientists.

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Biennale Venice offers Freespace

On 26th of May the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 opened its gates to public. Until the 25th of November exhibitions around the loose topic “Freespace” can be visited.

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Tipping the Scales

The Japanese designer Tomo Kihara has developed a tool for street debating, which allows homeless people to earn money without compromising their dignity.

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projects

Pink Jungle in Zurich

The installation “Jungle Cube” by Nadine Jost and Regula Luder will immerse the Zurich Münsterhof in Magenta from June 2018 for the duration of the Zurich Festival.

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Guardians of the land

The Austrian lab [applied] Foreign Affairs has been working to implement measures for sustainable village growth together with local residents from Guabuliga, Ghana.

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Japanese Trio

The Portland Japanese Garden is an urban project in Oregon designed by Kengo Kuma. It features a central courtyard and buildings topped with pagoda-style, green roofs.

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Cloud House

In Springfield, American artist and activist Matthew Mazzotta designed a shed-like house with an eye catchy feature: a cloud sculpture, attached to the roof. The cloud is part of a simulation of the natural hydrological cycle. The visitors should experience the function and our dependence on this system.

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Landing on the moon

For the national laboratory MAX IV in Lund in southern Sweden Snöhetta had to find innovative ideas to deal with the unique parameters. Several aspects were taken into consideration to design the 19 hectares park of the synchrotron radiation facility: mitigating ground vibrations of the nearby highways, storm water management and meeting the city’s ambitious […]

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City Park Instead of Parking Lots

How to create an exciting and vibrant city park out of dreary parking lots? In Dallas, the landscape architects of SWA developed the curve-shaped Pacific Plaza, to make the downtown a livelier place.

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This land is our land

The art works of Cuban artist Ana Mendieta are about identity, home and nature. From 20 April to 22 July 2018, the Gropius Building in Berlin is showing a selection of her works.

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The Scars of Memory

Michael St Maur Sheil has been visiting the battlefields of the First World War. On his excursions he has discovered landscapes of great beauty that still show the scars of war.

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Bunaken – a natural paradise under strain

Bunaken Marine National Park in Indonesia is not a lonely spot owned by nature but a well-known attraction flooded by tourists. An academic studio at the National University of Singapore developed a concept that aims to channel visitors and protect the fragile underwater ecosystem. Apparent paradise Bunaken The world’s end is a beautiful place, and […]

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Seeing the bigger picture: Atlas of World Landscape Architecture

Markus Sebastian Braun’s & Chris van Uffelen’s book “Atlas of World Landscape Architecture” focuses on landscape architecture that has become more global in the 21st century.

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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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