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Seattle’s Central Waterfront Project Finalists Announced

Damian Holmes — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:08:48 +0000

Last week the City of Seattle announced the shortlist of finalists for the role of lead designer. The four shortlisted teams are led by the following firms:

- Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

- James Corner Field Operations

- Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

- Wallace Roberts & Todd

The shortlist was established through careful consideration of Statements of Qualifications submitted [...]

AILA 2010 National Awards Announced

Damian Holmes — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:27:48 +0000

Australian Institute of Landscape Architects has announced the winners of the 2010 National Awards.

The top honor of Australian Medal for Landscape Architecture was awarded to

James Mather Delaney Design Pty Ltd in partnership with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects and City of Sydney for Paddington Reservoir Gardens, Paddington, Sydney

AILA 2010 National Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence

DESIGN Taylor Cullity Lethlean Darlington [...]

NYC opens first sections of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Greenway

Damian Holmes — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:41:43 +0000

Five additional acres of Brooklyn Bridge Park have been opened to the public, including the first 2,000 feet of the park’s greenway, a 30-foot wide, scenic bikeway and walkway along the East River shoreline. The first section of the new greenway starts at the park entrance at Old Fulton Street and ends at the foot [...]

West Kowloon Cultural District Concept Options revealed: OMA, Foster+Partners, Rocco

Damian Holmes — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:20:07 +0000

The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) has revealed the 3 conceptual plan options for the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) on Friday at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The three master plan options were undertaken as Stage 2 of the Public Engagement for the arrangement of arts and cultural facilities as well as [...]

IFLA 2011 – Scales of Nature – Zurich, Switzerland

Damian Holmes — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:34:34 +0000

48th IFLA World Congress & Expo will see landscape architecture & allied professionals from around the globe gather in Zurich, Switzerland from June 27– 29 2011. Registration will Start 1. September 2010. The video below will give you an background on Zurich and its landscape architecture.

To stay informed about the event you can join the [...]

Finalist Designs revealed for Gateway Arch Competition

Damian Holmes — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:13:02 +0000

PWP TEAM - View from Courthouse to River

Today the designs from the five finalists of the The City + The River + The Arch design competition were revealed to the public at the Gateway Arch Visitors Center with the Design Team Leaders set to present their designs on August 26. The winning team will be [...]

Finalists reveal designs for Gateway Arch Competition

Damian Holmes — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:44:20 +0000

The finalists recently submitted designs for the St.Louis Gateway Arch Competition (The City+The Arch+The River 2015 Competition) . The video below gives a brief summary of the finalists submissions (SOURCE: Stltoday.com). We will update with a more in depth look at the designs soon. The winner will be announced after public comment on September 24.

Finalist [...]

AILA announces results of 2010 Salary Survey

Damian Holmes — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:05:15 +0000

AILA (Australian Institute of Landscape Architects) has recently announced the results of the 2010 Salary Survey with 530 respondents. This year the AILA survey has changed from past years with respondents gave their total salary package including superannuation (9% of salary as compulsory retirement savings). AILA also changed the ‘experience in years’ for the junior [...]

World Architecture Festival Shortlist 2010 Announced

Damian Holmes — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:54:36 +0000

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 [...]

Ground breaks on $12mil WNYC Transmitter Park

Damian Holmes — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:33:31 +0000

Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe and New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth W. Pinsky recently broke ground on a $12 million redevelopment of WNYC Transmitter Park along the East River in Brooklyn. The project includes the construction of a pier at the foot of Kent Street, an upland connection to the pier, [...]

London Cycle Hire Scheme goes live

Damian Holmes — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:17:29 +0000

SOURCE: Flickr – By celesteh (Les Hutchins)

Recently London’s newest public transport system went live with 5000 bikes available with more than 12,000 members signed up to use the scheme, with over 6000 keys activated. Londoners using the scheme can from today take a cycle from one of 315 docking stations based every 300m or so throughout [...]

Imagination Playground – a different form of play

Damian Holmes — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:25:27 +0000

Photo by Daniel Avila Source: NYC Dept. Parks & Recreation

On July 27, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and architect David Rockwell opened Imagination Playground at Burling Slip, an innovative playspace conceived and designed pro-bono by Mr. Rockwell to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play. With a focus on loose parts, Imagination Playground offers a changing array of [...]

Seachange 2030+ Ideas Competition: Winners Announced

Damian Holmes — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:21:19 +0000

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects [AILA] and its competition partners invited individuals and teams to participate in the Sea Change 2030+, an international ideas competition, which asked for innovative ideas for planning, designing and managing for adaptation to urban sea level rise.

There were many highly innovative ideas in most of the submissions. Three equal first [...]

PAYSAGES EN EXIL – Nicolas Dorval-Bory / Raphaël Bétillon

Damian Holmes — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:15:05 +0000

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 [...]

The Future of Work – 2030

Damian Holmes — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:07:47 +0000

cityLAB - UCLA - Los Angeles 2030

Recently Newsweek asked several design firms to give their impressions of how cities would look in 2030. So far they have published two parts – New York & Los Angles. Impressions of what 2030 New York would look like where given by Richard Meier & Partners; Cooper, Robertson [...]