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Category: Landscape Tags: Buro Lubbers, COR-TEN, Netherlands, Public square, Random pattern
Mathildeplein As green square, Mathildeplein offers peace and quiet in the hectic city centre of Eindhoven. The amorphous form of the planning area demanded an exacting structure that brings serenity and also guarantees an optimal view of the Light Tower. The design concept is therefore based on rigid lines that run counter to the building. [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Buro Lubbers, COR-TEN, Netherlands, Public square, Stair, Waterfront architecture
Maaskade Cuijk is a spectacular meeting place near the river Meuse in Cuijk designed by Dutch landscape architect firm Buro Lubbers. The design concept of the river bank is inspired on the scale and atmosphere of the river. The sturdy wall of steel has become the link between village and river, not by separating the [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Public square
The brief for the Former Water Police Site was to develop a new public park for a 1.8 hectare parcel of post industrial land on the Pyrmont peninsula. The prime location of the site on Sydney’s waterfront offered the unique opportunity for the creation of memorable public parkland for both local users and the wider [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: COR-TEN, Courtyard architecture, Denmark, Kristine Jensens Tegnestue, Public square
Sct Nicolai School Centre from the 1850’ ies is a continuous reincarnation of everything from the traditional Danish school with gyms and schoolyards. With five art houses as the new function the possibility of a new typology of creative and dynamic culture centre emerges. The project evolves with the idea of the schoolyard as the [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: Cepezed, Netherlands, Public square, Reflective pool, WES
The investigation of the site and the diverse town planning structures in the environment may be focused on two main themes: the creation of a strong identity for the Ensemble Westraven itself – it should function as an Island, as a microstructure within the city structure the attempt to achieve the most possible ‘urban Integration’ [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: dom arquitectura, Pablo Serrano Elorduy, Public square, Spain
Spanish architect Pablo Serrano Elorduy (founder of dom arquitectura) created a contemporary landscape design Würth La Rioja Museum Gardens. The main idea was to project an argument that would permit it to be the same site that would supply the patterns of intervention, bringing out their morphological, topographical and topological conditions and forms of the [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Concrete, Green architecture, McGregor Coxall, Public square
The Sydney-based landscape design studio Mcgregor Coxall as the lead designers designed the Ballast Point Park sited on the Birchgrove Peninsula in the inner reaches of Sydney harbour, Australia. + Project description courtesy of Mcgregor Coxall Ballast Point Park This 2.8ha park is located on a contaminated former industrial lubricant production site on the Birchgrove [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: ASPECT Studios, Australia NewZealand, Public square
Australian landscape design firm ASPECT Studios has completed the landscape design for the new Melbourne Convention Centre & the adjacent South Wharf mixed use Precinct. The project connects Southbank to the Docklands, with a series of public promenades civic and retail buildings. ASPECT Studios designed to integrate the public realm with the large scale buildings [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: Ireland, Martha Schwartz Partners, Public square
The landscape architects at Martha Schwartz Partners (MSP) designed the square to be the main attraction of the newly renovated Dublin riverfront; with the completion this month of architect Daniel Libeskind’s Grand Canal Theater on the its southern perimeter, the plaza is now just that, a great connector and main meet-up spot that establishes the [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: Cino Zucchi Architetti, Italy, Public square
Cino Zucchi Architetti, in collaboration with landscape architect Gueltrini e Stignani have designed the Neighbourhood Park in San Donà di Piave, Venice, Italy. + Project description courtesy of Cino Zucchi Flowering paths A snow-white neighbourhood park in San Donà di Piave San Donà de Piave is a typical medium-sized town in the Veneto region, where [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: COR-TEN, Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff, Landscape architecture, Public square, Spain
Architect Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff have designed the Public Space for Events Forum de Negocios located in Granada, Spain. Our landscape carpet tries to create a new reality to dialogue with the existing one instead of using other camouflage strategy. Francisco J. del Corral del Campo + Project description courtesy of Francisco [...]
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