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Category: Landscape, Master Plan Tags: Architectural video, Random pattern
A team of four by Polar Ants (Lukasz Szlachcic, Anais Mikaelian, Laila Selim, Bita Mohamadi), having just finished an experimental, architectural project within the framework of the Design Research Lab at the Architectural Association. The statement Architecture defines, articulates and mediates the relationship between a physical environment and inhabitation. The primary investigation of this project [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: Fluid form, USA
Chicago is known for its penchant to “make no little plans” as Daniel Burnham memorably pronounced over a century ago. And so today, Chicago’s most popular attraction, Navy Pier is revisiting Burnham’s legacy as it reimagines its potential as a world class cultural destination. To help realize Navy Pier’s ambitious design goals, a team led [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, COR-TEN, Denmark
AALBORG WATERFRONT – LINKING PORT & CITY The master plan for Aalborg Waterfront links the city’s medieval centre with the adjacent fjord, which has previously been difficult for citizens to access due to the industrial harbour and the associated heavy traffic. By tying in with the openings in the urban fabric, a new relationship between [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: estudioOCA
The Reason The indiscriminate spread of HIV and AIDS in the early 1980s devastated this thriving urban community. Significant communication barriers caused by stigma and the unknown exacerbated the problem. Our NYC Remembrance Memorial symbolizes the eradication of these barriers while paying homage to past and present victims of this disease, their friends and their [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Landscape Tags: Architectural video, Arup, Pavilion, Spain, Timber
The Metropol Parasol was designed by Architect, J. MAYER H., with engineering consulting from Arup. The Metropol Parasol is one of the largest wooden structures in the world and was completed in April 2011. It has become a new centre for Seville. Arup‘s positive influence on the world is explored in a film about Metropol [...]
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Category: Landscape, Master Plan Tags: Fluid form, Mexico
Shelter for Juarez The spatial topology intends to generate a dichotomy in use: a sheltered space with inner uses and an upper skin working as open transversal spaces in a city in vicissitude. The morphology was given by bioclimatic studies having as outcome a series of passive strategies for the extreme and complex weather of [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: AH Asociados, Concrete, Spain, Stair
Designed by AH Asociados, this project, executed in two phases, was born of the overarching need to improve conditions of stability on the earthworks where the old parish church is tucked away. It is an item in the baroque tradition which constitutes practically the only historical reference to the town of San Adrián, whilst at [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: AH Asociados, José Manuel Cutillas, Spain, Steel
Pergola in Echavacoiz Norte is a project by AH Asociados. The urbanization responds to two basic objectives: to define areas of support, (infrastructures, pavements, etc.,) in an important residential area and to design a linear park, other border for the risen up city, which confirms its horizontal walkway character, supported at the edge of the [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: estudioOCA, Refurbishment / Extension, USA
This study for the treatment of the future subway extension to North Beach takes into consideration the historic value of the neighborhood and existing park, and attempts to create an improved pedestrian experience while minimizing the impact on the community. The proposed plaza replaces a small, inaccessible landscaped area and a short section of Powell [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand
ASPECT Studios, the highlly awarded Australian landscape architecture company, has completed a multi-use trail at Narrabeen Lagoon on Sydney’s northern beaches. The lagoon is one of Sydney’s natural assets and is a major drawcard and focal point of the area. Diverse experiences are on offer at different locations around the lagoon. The eastern side comes [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Concrete, Shelter, Switzerland
The market square’s new cover represents a sensitive approach to urban planning that is as much an engineering feat as a challenge for the town planners. The aim has been to combine nature and novel architecture to create a harmonious and symbolic whole that is adapted to all the activities associated with Renens’s town centre. [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Public square
ASPECT Studios has just completed a transformation of the public domain of Darling Harbour. This public domain project, commissioned by SHFA and Lend Lease now known as Darling Quarter, is a major place-making project for Sydney with a world class children’s playground as its centre piece. At over 4000m2 it is the largest in the [...]
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