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Rooftop Farms in Jordan

They are more than a means of urban food production
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Rooftop Farms in Jordan

They are more than a means of urban food production
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Olympic Park in Buenos Aires

The project for the Olympic Park was based on the renovation of a traditional park designed and built in the 1980s
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Olympic Park in Buenos Aires

The project for the Olympic Park was based on the renovation of a traditional park designed and built in the 1980s
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Classes with a view

The green roof of the Di Tella University in Buenos Aires
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Classes with a view

The green roof of the Di Tella University in Buenos Aires
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Urban planning saves panda’s life

Chengdu Panda Reserve: masterplan with the aim to save pandas from extinction
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Urban planning saves panda’s life

Chengdu Panda Reserve: masterplan with the aim to save pandas from extinction
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Olympic Village – Buenos Aires

Regulating new urban and social requirements and defining the district’s long-term development goals
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Olympic Village – Buenos Aires

Regulating new urban and social requirements and defining the district’s long-term development goals
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Living where the Wall once stood

Revisting the Cold War division of Germany in Venice
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Living where the Wall once stood

Revisting the Cold War division of Germany in Venice
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Performative Landscapes

Rosa Barba Prize 2018: Stairway to heaven
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Performative Landscapes

Rosa Barba Prize 2018: Stairway to heaven
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Rethinking Urban Complexities

ASLA Conference 2018 in Philadelphia: improving urban life
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Rethinking Urban Complexities

ASLA Conference 2018 in Philadelphia: improving urban life
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Plant Landscape in the City

International Meeting of I maestri del paesaggio 2018
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Plant Landscape in the City

International Meeting of I maestri del paesaggio 2018
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While we wait

“While We Wait”: installation by Bethlehem-based architects Elias and Yousef Anastas
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While we wait

“While We Wait”: installation by Bethlehem-based architects Elias and Yousef Anastas
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Brazilian urban policy by Bolsonaro

Brazil has a new president-elect, the far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro. How will urban policy be affected?

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New platform, new view on architecture

Normally, architects and architecture students design and realize concepts and buildings. But can architects do a TV-show? That’s new – and “Station.plus” dares this experiment.

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Reaping what we sow

The community garden ‘Hort de la Font Trobada’ in Barcelona not only offers food production and ecology, but also has a social and educational focus.

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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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Olympic Park in Buenos Aires

As part of a large-scale urban and social conversion program in the south of the city, the Olympic Parc became a prominent location for the games.

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From Wasteland to Highlight

“Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park” achieves two things – it transforms an abandoned industrial land into a resilient infrastructure and, at the same time, provides a contemplative retreat for the neighbourhood.

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Against silent oblivion

The Rosa Park House refers to the actual purpose of monument preservation: remembering. With this project, the American artist Ryan Mendoza has made a strong case for it.

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Balloon Stage

There was a special vehicle to be spotted on London’s Regent’s Canal: A golden, inflatable boat theater. It’s called AirDraft and was designed by architects Thomas Randall-Page and Benedetta Rogers.

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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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Plant Landscape in the City

For the eighth time, the Arketips Association and the district council of the north Italian City of Bergamo organized the international event i maestri del paesaggio – Masters of Landscape. This year’s event dealt with the very basis of each and every landscape: plants.

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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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Performative Landscapes

This year’s slogan of the International Landscape Biennial, “Performative Landscapes”, emphasizes the need to create landscapes which face today’s threats, playing ecological, social and political roles at the same time. The event, the 10th in a row, was organized by the Catalan Architects Association and the UPC University and took place in Barcelona from 25th to 29th September.

International Architecture Master Class

15 to 29 September, 2019
Sydney, Australia
www.ozetecture.org
The Politics of Design

September 29, 2018 to March 10, 2019
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
design-museum.de

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