When planning a new development, redeveloping a water canal might sound like an unusual place to start. Broparken is a technical stormwater system, disguised as an attractive urban social space, transforming a characterless stretch of land into a much-loved public park. Setting the scene for living Broparken is the first project in a new urban […]
Maribyrnong Waterfront IWM by Realmstudios
Organizers: Landscape Institute,The Building Centre venue: The Building Centre,The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, Fitzrovia, London WC1E 7BT, UK from 13/01/2015 09:00 until 26/02/2015 19:00. Rethinking the Urban Landscape, a (free!) exhibition curated by The Building Centre and Landscape Institute, presents...
Hornsbergs Strandpark is the winner of the Swedish landscape award: Sienapriset 2012. Hornsbergs strandpark is where water and land meet in a curvy shoreline and contemporary design, round organic shape and clean lines. Hornsbergs Strandpark faces west to Ulvsundasjön and the evening sun. The waterfront and the three long floating piers give the visitor a […]
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Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners is a Rotterdam-based office for proactive landscape architecture founded in 2014. Felixx believes a better world requires a better organization of our environment. We specialize in addressing urgent global challenges with locally embedded design solutions. Our work has a broad international scope and our projects range from spatial research, landscape […]
The Tikkurila River Park is developing into an outdoor living room that is a green pair for the urban Tikkurila centre – the major district of Vantaa that is Finland’s third busiest railway station and is in constant renewal. The first phase of the Tikkurila River Park was opened to the public in June 2020. […]
The redesign of a green space along the river Lippe has created an open river park that leads from the city centre along the water to the surrounding landscape. The two different levels, the park and the river some 5 m below, are connected through two new very distinctive paths, which allow exciting and changing views of the river, of the riverbank on the other side and of the city edge.
Location: Lisle, France [MAP] Designer: Nature Project Type: Riverside Completion Date: n/a Visited: 21.07.2013 Access: via Car, free parking is provided On a hot summers day this riverside beach i…
Image 1 of 47 from gallery of Yangpu Riverside Public Space / Da landscape. Photograph by Xiaohui Jin
Riverside green gives Brisbane’s growing population a new open space in the heart of the city.This new ‘green heart’ of South Bank Parklands supports Brisbane’s leisure and recreation needs at a time when inner-city population growth is putting pressure on the city’s existing parks and public spaces. Visitors can relax and gather on the riverfront’s expansive events […]
DLC: The Huangpu River, excavated by Lord Chunshen during China’s warring states period (475 BC – 221 BC), is a 113 km long tributary flowing through Shanghai, China. Due to its unique geographical location and vast maritime advantages, the Huangpu River from the mid-19th through the end of the 20th century became an ideal location […]
Riverside green gives Brisbane’s growing population a new open space in the heart of the city.This new ‘green heart’ of South Bank Parklands supports Brisbane’s leisure and recreation needs at a time when inner-city population growth is putting pressure on the city’s existing parks and public spaces. Visitors can relax and gather on the riverfront’s expansive events […]
To gaze at the elegance of nature unintentionally
As development pressures intensify in Australian cities, the renovation of the Riverside Centre plaza illustrates how an urban space can be revitalized without the need to sacrifice heritage or cultural identity.
LABLAND architects: Laasby Sea Park is the first of its kind in Denmark designed specifically for climate change, cross-gym and recreational use. A few years ago in the small Jutlandic town, Laasby, you would find an old factory area being overtaken by grass and bushes day by day. No one used the area or had […]
The redesign of a green space along the river Lippe has created an open river park that leads from the city centre along the water to the surrounding landscape. The two different levels, the park and the river some 5 m below, are connected through two new very distinctive paths, which allow exciting and changing views of the river, of the riverbank on the other side and of the city edge.
Image 15 of 38 from gallery of Poyma Embankment Park / Basis architectural bureau. Courtesy of Basis architectural bureau
River Loop Rionegro | Antioquia | Colombia River Loop is a metropolitan intervention in the riverbanks of Rionegro that extends for over 4 kilometers in length. The master plan defines not only the riverfront itself but also the areas adjacent to the river as a public park with urban equipment of different types for ...
Lacime Architects’ Liwa Riverside Book Bar on a university campus in Shanghai is a tranquil space for reading and relaxing
When planning a new development, redeveloping a water canal might sound like an unusual place to start. Broparken is a technical stormwater system, disguised as an attractive urban social space, transforming a characterless stretch of land into a much-loved public park. Setting the scene for living Broparken is the first project in a new urban […]
Fifteen years in the making, a new public space reunites Chicago with the river that runs through it. By Jane Margolies “Isn’t it hot?” Gina Ford, ASLA, asked excitedly, waving a well-jacketed arm around her on a cold morning this past fall as she, the architect Carol Ross Barney, and Terry Ryan, FASLA, met up
Business improvement district NE1 wants to makes improvements to Newcastle's Quayside a key part of its next five-year plan
Atelier LOIDL has been practicing an open and discursive design process since its establishment in 1984. Based in Germany‘s capital Berlin Atelier LOIDL grew to a company of about 23 employees. Since 2005 Atelier LOIDL is managed by Bernd Joosten, Leonard Grosch and Felix Schwarz. We provide all services associated with landscape architecture, master and […]
The urban riverscapes of the River Neckar in the heart of Heilbronn appeared fragmented and were characterized by spatial obstacles such as roads and railway lines. Many plots were inaccessible and vacant. Triggered by the development of the “Neckarbogen” (bend of the river Neckar) urban scheme on a former brownfield site, the city’s urban fabric […]
When planning a new development, redeveloping a water canal might sound like an unusual place to start. Broparken is a technical stormwater system, disguised as an attractive urban social space, transforming a characterless stretch of land into a much-loved public park. Setting the scene for living Broparken is the first project in a new urban […]
Atelier LOIDL has been practicing an open and discursive design process since its establishment in 1984. Based in Germany‘s capital Berlin Atelier LOIDL grew to a company of about 23 employees. Since 2005 Atelier LOIDL is managed by Bernd Joosten, Leonard Grosch and Felix Schwarz. We provide all services associated with landscape architecture, master and […]
The city of Perreux-sur-Marne has rethought its entire relation to its river, considering it as a major environmental, social, urban and political issue. The project aims at bringing back both the people and other species of plants and animals to the banks of the river Marne, by softening the water and urban edges. Concrete protections are turned into vegetal engeneering, and overflood is accepted, widening the spectrum of environements.