Governors Island Phase 1 by West 8
Governors Island offers a world apart from New York City, an extraordinary vantage point on New York Harbor, its icons, treasured historic landscape, and the chance to experience the sounds and smells...
View ArticleParc François Mitterrand by Urbicus
The rehabilitation of the ‘park de la prefecture’ is an opportunity to improve its opening towards surrounding neighbourhoods. Designed in 1974 by Alain Provost, the park prefecture has retained its...
View ArticleThalie Park by Urbicus
Located amid the natural areas of the Thalie Valley, albeit on a former landfill site at the edge of the railway infrastructure in neglected areas, and in a flood zone, the challenge of the project is...
View ArticleA Changing Neighbourhood by Espace Libre
Today, the neighborhood of Val Fourré, in Mantes-la-Jolie (France) faces the biggest urban change of its story. Bordered by the forest of Mantes, it was built in the sixties- near the Seine, in front...
View ArticleEsterwegen Memorial by WES Landscape Architecture – UPDATED
On the site of the concentration camp Esterwegen, built in 1933, a memorial was set up in memory of all fifteen camps in the Ems region and their victims. None of the above-ground construction elements...
View ArticleKatwijk Coastal Defence by OKRA
For the past ten years the Rijkswaterstaat, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, have been working to strengthen some weak links in the coast. Alongside building the required coastal...
View ArticleMartin Luther King Park by Atelier Jacqueline Osty & associes
In 2003 the City of Paris launched a tender for the Clichy Batignolles area for which the team of François Grether, town planner, Jacqueline Osty, landscape architect and OGI engineer firm, was...
View ArticlePark am Gleisdreieck III – Flaschenhals by Atelier LOIDL
Measuring two hectares, the Flaschenhals accomplishes the Park am Gleisdreieck as third part of the design. It extends from Kreuzberg and Schöneberg till the boarders of Tempelhof.
View ArticleDavid H. Koch Plaza at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by OLIN
Along the length of the landmarked Fifth Avenue façade, OLIN’s design for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s four-block-long plaza enhances one of New York City’s most significant public gathering...
View ArticleGrorudparken by LINK Arkitektur
Grorudparken (Grorud Park) is one of four new neighbourhood parks in Groruddalen. The park introduces facilities for athletics, play, recreation, youth programmes, social interaction, and cultural...
View ArticlePoppy Plaza by the marc boutin architectural collaborative
Poppy Plaza is the first of a series of planned public spaces along The Memorial Drive Landscape of Memory, a 9.5 km pathway that runs parallel to Memorial Drive and is designed to honour the...
View ArticleHousing Project, Triemli
A housing cooperative had to densify one of their existing housing urbanisations. To keep the contextual landscape characteristics two vast buildings surround a large courtyard. Architectonically...
View ArticleThe Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology by OJB
The Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology provides a modern center for collaborative research and instruction in the disciplines of science...
View ArticleMemorial to Victims of Violence in Mexico by Gaeta Springall Architects
The site is in Chapultepec, the most important park of Mexico City. This part of the forest belongs to the Federal Government and was under the custody of the Secretariat of National Defense for many...
View ArticleConversion Estienne-et-Foch Barrack by A24 Landschaft
The State Horticultural Show Landau 2015 represents a model conversion project encompassing more than 27 hectares of land and a budget of 13 million Euros ... It will provide a framework for the future...
View ArticleThe Written Garden by relais Landscape Architects
relais Landschaftsarchitekten: The Written Garden / relais Landschaftsarchitekten Gardens are symbolic spaces, with connotations on many levels. Gardens can be read – and can therefore also be...
View ArticleGustave & Léonard Hentsch Park by HÜSLER & Associés
Hüsler & associés: Different stories and period are crossing in the Gustave & Léonard Hentsch Park. The one of the Hentsch bankers of course, the one which concerns the football club...
View ArticleLe Parc du Chemin de l’Ile by Mutabilis
The park is situated above the level of the Seine and it uses the river’s water for main features in the park. The water is brought in the park using Archimedean screw, then gravity takes over. Water...
View ArticleRooftop Park Bulwark Sint Jan by OSLO
OSLO Ontwerp Stedelijke en Landschappelijke Omgeving: Coming from the railway station, entering the old town centre of ‘s-Hertogenbosch by crossing the Wilhelmina Bridge, a unique building of rusty...
View ArticleLadeira da Barroquinha by Metro Arquitetos
Metro Arquitetos: The new design for Ladeira da Barroquinha in the centre of Salvador is an extension of the public space renovations for the Glauber Rocha Theatre and the Gregorio de Mattos Foundation...
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