Anticipating the Landscape by Andrew van Egmond
The garden successfully builds on the relation between the surrounding landscape and the site. On one side of the house, it uses the approach of borrowed landscapes, establishing a connection between...
View ArticleLILA 2020: Phase Shifts Park
Jury statement: This transformation of an airport into landscape works to balance the extreme climate, the design interlocks three scales: geographical, urban and local. The design meshes precisely...
View ArticleLILA 2020: Lifting The Palm Grove To a Higher Level
From the jury statement: The structure was established as a landmark, social magnet, a site part of, yet distinct from, landscape. Its intervention is a sensitive, precise study of village imagery,...
View ArticleLILA 2020: Girona’s Shores
From the jury statement: This on-going project was self-initiated by landscape architecture office EMF – Estudi Marti Franch – in the midst of the global financial crisis. The goal was to make it “big...
View ArticleLILA 2020: Ballerup Boulevard by Marianne Levinsen Landskab
From the jury statement: As a part of a larger planning scheme for reducing traffic, Ballerup Boulevard provides a pilot project for transforming our car-oriented, oversized streets into...
View ArticleLILA 2020: Terra Dominicata Hotel & Winery
Using simple and graceful design language, the project succeeds in creating a new interpretation of local traditional craftsmanship and history. It is in the combination of strong spatial and material...
View ArticleLILA 2020: Cloud of Hometown Landscape Design
From the jury statement: The project text humbly tells of the team’s aim to return the site to its rural integrity and local traditional building ways, away from the usual domination of design...
View ArticleLILA 2020: Flyvestation Værløse by Juul Frost Architects
The jury recognized a very different approach to the typology of residential landscape, where one would usually find very determined structures, designed to the very last square meter. Instead, Juul...
View ArticleLILA 2020: Square Maïmat by Emma Blanc, France
The jury recognized the approach of embracing time to make a comfortable living space. The project successfully combines soil reactivation, food production, water management and recycling of the...
View ArticleLILA 2020: Ellipse Garden by Kjeld Slot Havearkitekt
The jury recognized the tension and the atmospheric density that was achieved by well-known tools of garden design. The use of historic structures successfully establishes different ambiences and opens...
View ArticleLuisenstädtischer Cemetery
Graveyards are not just burial places. Many of these spaces are also used for contemplative walks in the context of cultural witnessing. They are scenic as well as being ecologically rich. Many...
View ArticleNot Just Library – Bathhouse Garden
“It is not just a library but a garden as well.” Have a private talk with a garden. Located in the north of the tobacco factory, “Not Just a Library” is set in a renovated women’s bathhouse. As you...
View ArticleInto the Forest
Openfabric has been selected to design the public spaces of Mantova city center in occasion of the first World Forum on Urban Forest (WFUF 2018) by FAO. The aim of the design is to engage with the two...
View ArticleFarsta Lakefront Boardwalk
Farsta strandbad is a popular public bathing site located south of Stockholm city. The recreational paths along the lakesides of lake Magelungen was previously inaccessible. As a part of Stockholm...
View ArticleEuropean Hansemuseum, Lübeck
The open space reflects the complex superimpositions, the layering of time, in a minimalist way. The rooms have a simple appearance and an appealing ambience. Reduced to the historical sketches, in...
View ArticleUNESCO World Heritage Site Abbey Lorsch
The power of this project is based on an intelligent answer to describe something which is not. The monastery, to which the project is dedicated, didn't survive to the present day, so Topotek 1 had to...
View ArticleBio-Towers Lauchhammer by HochC Landschaftsarchitekten
The area surrounding the bio-towers on the former coking-plant was converted to an event location. Today, the bio-towers are no longer integrated into an industrial environment, but function as...
View ArticleLittle Island by MNLA
MNLA collaborated with Heatherwick Studio to design Little Island (formerly Pier 55), a dramatic 2.4-acre public park in the Hudson River that brings together art and nature in an immersive experience....
View ArticleSea Organs by Nikola Bašić
It’s been fat 4 years since sea organs were built as a enrichment of the Zadar’s Riva-waterfront. The movement of the waves pushes air through the pipes, and makes them whistle. 35 Pipes are hidden in...
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