Landform / Contour / Lawn

Madrid RIO / Burgos & Garrido + Porras La Casta + Rubio & Álvarez-Sala + West 8

Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Activity / Multipurpose Area,Analysis / Solution / System,Circulation,Deck / Terrace / Plaza,Featured,Footbridge,Fountain,Harmony With The Context,Landform / Contour / Lawn,Landmark,Landscape & Street Furniture,Landscape Award,Landscape Element,Pavement / pattern,Pedestrian / Street,Planting Area,Playground,Pool / Pond,Public Space,Riverside,Travel,World's Best Places to VisitMay 29, 20131 comment

An international ideas competition was launched by Madrid city council to restore the traffic liberated spaces. The winning proposal was the project submitted by the team formed by the architecture offices Burgos & Garrido, Porras & La Casta, Rubio & Álvarez Sala and the Dutch office West 8. The winning team was commissioned the redaction of the Spaecial Plan Manzanares River…

Madrid RIO By Burgos & Garrido, Porras La Casta, Rubio & Alvarez-Sala, West 8 - 01 Madrid Rio

Musée du Louvre-Lens / SANAA

Posted by DesignalmicPosted in ATMOSPHERE,DAYLIGHTING,Famous / Popular / Great / World : Building,Featured,Gallery,glass facade,GREEN AREA,HISTORY & STORY OF THE BUILDING,INTERIORs SPACE,Landform / Contour / Lawn,LIGHTING EFFECTIVE,MATERIALS USED,Memorial & Museum Space,Metal Sheet,Museum,NATURAL VENTILATION,OUTDOOR SPACE,Steel,TravelMay 8, 2013No comments

Situated on a former coal mine in Lens, a quiet town in northern France, the newly opened branch of the Musée du Louvre stands as a stunning essay in transparency and geometry. Designed by the Japanese firm SANAA in collaboration with the Manhattan studio Imrey Culbert…

Superkilen Urban Park Copenhagen / BIG + Topotek1 + Superflex

Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Activity / Multipurpose Area,Analysis / Solution / System,Circulation,City Space,Concrete,Editor's Picks,Harmony With The Context,Landform / Contour / Lawn,Landscape & Street Furniture,Landscape Award,Playground,Public Space,Sports Field,Square,Street Art,TravelMarch 7, 2013No comments

Superkilen is a half a mile long urban space wedging through one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighborhoods in Denmark. A collage of stories and urban situations from around the world: Bjarke Ingels Group, Topotek1 and SUPERFLEX’s response to Copenhagen’s most multi-cultural district…

Superkilen Urban Park Copenhagen By BIG, Topotek1 & Superflex - 07 Iwan Baan

Horizontal Skyscraper – Vanke Center / Steven Holl Architects

Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Architecture Award,BUILDING SYSTEMS,COLOR,FACADE / SKIN,Famous / Popular / Great / World : Building,Featured,GREEN AREA,Green Project,Green Roof,HISTORY & STORY OF THE BUILDING,Landform / Contour / Lawn,LEED,MASS & SHAPE,Mixed Use,NATURAL VENTILATION,Office Space,OUTDOOR SPACE,Planting Area,Pool / Pond,SCALE & SIZE,SOLUTION,Steel,SUSTAINABILITYMarch 6, 20131 comment

The Horizontal Skyscraper, designed by Steven Holl Architects and completed in 2009, is a mixed-use building that includes offices for the Vanke Co., a conference center, restaurant, an auditorium, a hotel, apartments and a large public park. By raising the 1,296,459 sf building on eight cores — as far as 50 meters apart and positioning the building right under the 35-meter high limit of the area…

Horizontal Skyscraper - Vanke Center By Steven Holl Architects - 03 Hufton & Crow

Normand Park Trees Play and Gardening / Kinnear Landscape Architects

Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Activity / Multipurpose Area,Editor's Picks,Landform / Contour / Lawn,Landscape Award,Park,Pavement / pattern,Plant Materials Used,Planting Area,Playground,Sports Field,TravelFebruary 6, 2013No comments

Designers, Kinnear Landscape Architects, specified Wildflower Turf as a way to enhance this recreational park in Fulham, West London. The park, composed of a mix of play areas and green spaces was designed to increase biodiversity within the urban landscape…

Normand Park Trees Play and Gardening By Kinnear Landscape Architects - 01

Scholars’ Green Park / gh3 & Terraplan

Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Circulation,Editor's Picks,Landform / Contour / Lawn,Landscape Award,Park,Pavement / pattern,Public Space,Shelter / Pavilion / KioskDecember 27, 2012No comments

The beautifully designed Scholars’ Green Park in Mississauga is the solution coming from gh3 & Terraplan. Scholars’ Green Park is the symbiosis of a public park and an academic common that provides quiet outdoor amenity space for the students, faculty and the surrounding community…

Scholars' Green Park By gh3 & Terraplan - 02

Punggol Promenade / LOOK Architects

Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Activity / Multipurpose Area,Circulation,Featured,Footbridge,Green Project,Harmony With The Context,Landform / Contour / Lawn,Landscape Award,Park,Planting Area,Pool / Pond,Public Space,Shelter / Pavilion / Kiosk,Travel,WaterfrontSeptember 17, 2012No comments

Singaporean studio LOOK Architects has created a landscaped park and promenade overlooking a beach in north-east Singapore, where 400 Chinese civilians were murdered during World War II. Named Punggol Point, the national heritage site has been commemorated with a small park at one end of the three-mile timber pathway, featuring lily ponds, playgrounds and a viewing platform over the beach…