Posts Tagged ‘Landscape’

Re-imagine Manhattan’s East River Esplanade Competition

by DD, August 13th, 2011, viewed 778 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Competitions, Landscape

Calling architects, landscape architects, urban planners, students and artists! CIVITAS wants you to generate dramatic and original concepts for New York City’s east side waterfront park in order to jump-start a process that could transform the entire East River pedestrian experience. Through this design-ideas competition, CIVITAS hopes to develop a spatially rich and varied scheme that will enhance the waterfront’s narrow confines with recognition of its total urban context. Read More »

Xinyang Master Plan by WORD + SWA Group

by DD, February 21st, 2011, viewed 1525 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Landscape

For their latest master plan in Xinyang, WORD with SWA Group Los Angeles have developed a framework that responds to the town’s predicted swift population growth. Read More »

Urban Planning Concept by Karim Rashid

by DD, January 5th, 2011, viewed 2762 time(s)
Posted in Karim Rashid, Landscape

Karim Rashid Studio have shared with us one of their recent conceptual works, Urban Planning Concept for Lago Di Como, Italy. Read More »

Helsinki Seafarers’ Centre is a Haven in an Industrial Landscape

by DD, September 3rd, 2010, viewed 1209 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Interiors

Commercial sailors arriving in Helsinki, Finland find a comfortable and inviting facility to welcome them and offer a respite from long stretches of time at sea. The Helsinki Seafarers’ Centre designed by ARK-House Architects is an alluring and contemporary building that offers a warm and inviting counterpoint to the surrounding steel warehouses and stacks of shipping containers. Read More »

International Ideas Competition for Urban Sea Level Rise

by DD, May 21st, 2010, viewed 2082 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Competitions

An international ideas competition SEA-CHANGE 2030+ has been launched by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). Read More »

Wide Open Ideas Competition for Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China

by DD, April 27th, 2010, viewed 4355 time(s)
Posted in Architecture, Competitions

This is the first of several competitions run to identify a range of possible design solutions, against a broad conceptual brief, with no commitment to build. They will be for significant design sites around the world. The aim of the Tiananmen Square Landscape Compeition is to generate debate and ideas for re-designing part of the most important urban space in the history of Chinese Civilization. We hope this will also set a new course for Eastern Landscape Architecture, helping in the development of an ecologically and culturally distinctive design tradition. This is a Web 2.0 landscape design competition running from March 2010 to June 2010. Read More »

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