By Damian Holmes, on August 4th, 2010
The World Architecture Festival has announced the shortlist for 2010 Awards. Several projects made the Landscape category shortlist for Built Projects but only two are on the shortlist for Future Projects. The Winners will be announced at the Festival in Barcelona which is to be held between 3-5 November.
The Student competition Urban SOS: Transformations recently closed [...]
By Damian Holmes, on July 26th, 2010
PAYSAGES EN EXIL from Nicolas Dorval-Bory on Vimeo.
Installation for the national art event “Imaginez Maintenant”
01/07 to 04/07/2010
Hôpital de La Grave – Toulouse
Nicolas Dorval-Bory / Raphaël Bétillon
Music : Michael Andrews – Socks on ears
For More images and information about the installation go to
www.nicolasdorvalbory.com or www.raphaelbetillon.com
PAYSAGES EN EXIL seeks to create, along the hospital of La Grave [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 24th, 2010
TV Gardener Charlie Dimmock helping local children with planting
The first of 4,000 new semi-mature trees are taking root in the London’s Olympic Park with around 100 ash, cherry and hazel trees, grown in Hampshire, already planted. The first of 300,000 wetland plants, grown in Norfolk and Wales for the UK’s largest ever urban river and [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 21st, 2010
Deutsche Welle channel recently posted a video on Youtube in which they interviewed Swiss landscape architect Enzo Enea about his Tree Museum which recently opened in Rapperswil-Jona on the shore of Lake Zurich, Switzerland.
SOURCE: Youtube
Video Credit: Deutsche Welle
By Damian Holmes, on June 18th, 2010
Arch Daily recently posted this fantastic video by Vandkunsten (in conjunction with Hausenberg) of Design Sustainable Cities such as Malmö, Sweden, Kløvermarken and Greve in Denmark.
masterplanning animation from Vandkunsten on Vimeo.
Thankfully spotted at the SOURCE: Arch Daily – Sustainable Cities. Arch Daily is a great resource for Daily Architecture News.
By Damian Holmes, on June 16th, 2010
The Kai Park at the Vinex-location Vathorst in Amersfoort was officially opened by mayor van Vliet–Kuiper on the 28th of May.
West 8 designed the two hectare park as a green oasis, inspired by the famous Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige. Hiroshige is famous for his etchings prints about the daily life, urban scenes, landscapes and [...]
By Damian Holmes, on May 25th, 2010
KCAP Architects & Planners in cooperation with local architect Arlette Schneiders win the competition for an office development in the city of Luxemburg. The competition entry was already awarded first prize in 2009. Recently, the client Fonds de Compensation has officially assigned the building commission to the team KCAP and ARLETTE SCHNEIDERS ARCHITECTS with advisors [...]
By Damian Holmes, on May 2nd, 2010
Santa & Cole, the Spanish Association of Landscape Architects and the European Biennial of Landscape Architecture announce the first Santa & Cole Landscape Architecture Competition, a Europe-wide competition of ideas intended to promote and reward good professional landscape architecture work in Spain, as a new culture which modifies and enriches the surroundings. Held biennially within [...]