The garden renowned Dutch Landscape Designer Piet Oudolf designed for the Vitra Campus in Germany is already in full bloom and welcoming visitors, thanks to its abundance of quickly-maturing perennial plants.
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Casanova + Hernandez have enlivened a waterfront plaza for the Albanian village of Shiroka by laying granite stone in a traditional carpet pattern, giving a, “unique and domestic identity to the public space.”
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Stefano Boeri Interiors have designed a style of modular street furniture, composed of trees, plants and benches, which will improve air quality and increase the presence of foliage in cities.
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As New Zealand celebrates the freedom that comes with COVID-19 level 2 we’re still being reminded to keep our distance from strangers.
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Succulents and tiny plants growing from the front facade of a 3D printed cabin add a charming aesthetic to this experimental design.
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News that Auckland Council proposes to disestablish its design office to meet budget targets has been greeted with frustration and concern by the Tāmaki Makaurau Design Alliance.
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LandLAB’s Viaduct Harbour seating prototypes project was initiated to find furniture which would add to the character and functionality of the Viaduct Promenade.
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WEISS/MANFREDI have responded to the challenge of redesigning the iconic La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, with a plan for a triple Mobius linking all existing park elements.
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Snøhetta has designed an update for Honolulu’s 22-acre Blaisdell Center complex, a “radical reconfiguration” that will provide a new network of open spaces and unifying paths.
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The call has gone out for jurors to participate in next year’s World Landscape Architecture Awards.
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Projected to open in 2021, the Lowline will transform an abandoned trolley terminal in Manhattan’s Lower East Side into the world’s first underground park.
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Finalists for this year’s World Architecture Festival have been announced and once again New Zealand is well represented, with 20 projects named in 14 categories. Among them Peddle Thorp’s design of the Bledisloe Quarter for the Auckland Waterfront Consortium, incorporating the proposed waterfront stadium, ‘Arena Aotearoa’.
With life expectancy continuing to rise, and evolving views on what life after retirement looks like, it’s no wonder that today’s aged-care residences are a far cry from those of twenty, or even ten, years ago.
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Stockholm’s subway system has earned itself the title of world’s longest art exhibition. That’s because each stop along its 110 km route has been decorated with sculptures, mosaics, paintings and installations.
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HASSEL Studio has won a merit award in the 2019 World Landscape Architecture Awards for their design of the Darling Harbour Public Realm.
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Using sand from the River Elbe, Atelier Loidl have fashioned a 1.6-hectare artificial peninsula as the new green centre of HafenCity in Hamburg, Germany.
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dhk Architects have turned a popular Cape Town tourist attraction into a 1.2-hectare urban park, referencing the history of the Amsterdam Battery which came before it.
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Cities are systems in which the people are meant to thrive, but Isthmus creative director David Irwin says the design of them is instead accentuating many of the human ailments, such as stress, anxiety and depression.
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The previously carpark-dominated Scarborough Foreshore in Perth, Western Australia, has been redeveloped into a pedestrian-focused recreational space by TCL, UDLA and Arup.
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One of the gardens at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London has won a big thumbs up from three royal rascals who marked it twenty out of ten.
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