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- This stunning park in China regulates stormwater with plants Thu, 2 Feb 23, 5:30amFish Tail Park is a combination of architectural, landscape, urban and environmental design. As a result, the park provides recreational access for the community, while simultaneously buffering it from the effects of monsoons. [...]
- Domaine de l'Anse Sauvage emphasizes lush greenery Fri, 13 Aug 21, 1:30amThe Domaine de l’Anse Sauvage uses abundant outdoor green space in conjunction with a residential housing and apartment hotel development to blur the lines between the natural and indoor worlds.[...]
- Winning designs unveiled for the sustainable redesign of Saratov Sat, 8 May 21, 4:30amThe southwestern Russian city of Saratov has announced the two winning designs in the Open International Competition for the Best Architectural and Urban Planning Concepts for the Integrated Development of Saratov's City...
- West 8 and Studio 44 win Tuchkov Buyan Park competition in St. Petersburg Tue, 13 Oct 20, 2:30amRotterdam-based West 8 and Saint Petersburg-based Studio 44 have won an international competition with their design for the Tuchkov Buyan Park, a new proposed waterfront park in Saint Petersburg, Russia...
- Stefano Boeri proposes SUPERVERDE urban greening modules Fri, 14 Aug 20, 1:30amIn a bid to bring more greenery to our cities, Milan-headquartered architecture practice Stefano Boeri Architetti has proposed SUPERVERDE, a series of scalable, modular soil blocks designed for greening urban spaces...
- Snhetta to revitalize Midtown Manhattan with vibrant garden Thu, 16 Jan 20, 2:30amMidtown Manhattan will soon become much greener thanks to New York City Planning Commission’s unanimous approval of Snøhetta’s design for a new privately-owned public space (POPS) in 550 Madison, a Philip Johnson-designed...
- A forgotten railway takes on new life as a new cultural destination in France Tue, 10 Dec 19, 5:30amIn the Alsace region of eastern France, Oslo-based architectural firm Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter and French design studio Parenthèse Paysage have teamed up to transform the historic, 11-kilometer-long Rosheim-St Nabor railway...
- Lemay injects new life into Montreals Expo 67 site Fri, 8 Nov 19, 2:30amCanadian multidisciplinary design firm Lemay recently revitalized a core area on the site of Expo 67, the 1967 International and Universal Exposition that was held in Montreal and is considered the most successful World’s...
- Ennead designs a striking nature preserve to protect Chinas most important river Tue, 26 Mar 19, 7:30amEnnead Architects and Andropogon Landscape Architects have won an international competition for the Shanghai Yangtze River Estuary Chinese Sturgeon Nature Preserve...
- A solar-powered home in Maine rises above the sand dunes on wooden stilts Thu, 21 Mar 19, 3:30amPortland-based firm Caleb Johnson Studio has unveiled a beautiful cedar-clad home elevated off the ground on stilts so that the natural "landscape is allowed to flow under the house." The solar-powered home, named "In the...
- An urban wetland springs to life among Bogotas high rises Wed, 13 Mar 19, 7:30amAn open plaza in Bogota’s northeastern business district has been radically transformed from a place of pure pavement to a vibrant urban wetland. Colombian architecture firm Obraestudio completed the project in 2016 in...
- New resilient waterfront park helps protect NYC from storm surges Fri, 29 Jun 18, 4:00amWaterfront parks have been springing up all over New York City, including in Long Island City, where Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park just completed its second phase this week...
- Virtual reality helps scientists plot the ideal urban green space Tue, 17 Apr 18, 12:25amGreen spaces offer urban residents the chance to escape the concrete jungle and experience nature's restorative benefits — if those spaces are well-designed...
- Spectacular mountain-like Valley breaks ground in Amsterdam Wed, 6 Sep 17, 7:30pmA jagged mountain-like mass is turning up on Amsterdam’s pancake-flat landscape. MVRDV recently broke ground on Valley, a 75,000-square-meter mixed-use development that looks like a cluster of mountain peaks covered in...
- The UK's newest nuclear power plant could literally shoot rainbows into the sky Tue, 25 Jul 17, 9:48pmA new proposal could lead to a nuclear power plant in the UK that literally shoots rainbows into the sky. UK-based master planning firm, One Creative Environments, submitted a landscape design proposal for Cumbria's Moorside...