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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. In awarding the second biennial Oberlander Prize to the Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, FASLA, the Cultural Landscape Foundation and its 2023 jury sent an unmistakable signal about the future of the field. His village had been destroyed, paved over with concrete.

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Competitions: OPEN CALL ORTHEN ‘Design a new entrance for the Orthen Cemetry’

Bustler

Orthen Cemetery (Begraafplaats Orthen) is also Orthen Memorial Park: a green oasis of tranquility intertwined with the city, which is accessible to everyone, regardless of background, age, disability, or religion. All entries will be included in a printed catalog and exhibited in the Den Bosch city office.

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Building Foundations: Cofounder Ben Prosky Recounts Architizer’s Early Days

Architizer

Currently led by David Weber, Architizer was founded in 2009 by Alex Diehl, Matthias Hollwich, Marc Kushner, and Ben Prosky with a mission to help architects build better buildings, better cities, and a better world. Ben Prosky: Essentially it was 2008. Hannah Feniak: What was the original goal of Architizer when it was founded?

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Landmark Award 

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Developed for a partnership of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the City of Los Angeles, and the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, the firm’s brief was to transform this difficult and neglected piece of land into a green space for the community—a task that would require mending ecological and societal wounds.

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The Architect's Questionnaire: Daniel Toole

Portland Architecture

Toole received his bachelor’s of architecture degree from the University of Oregon in 2008, and his master’s in urban design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2016, with a year-long research grant at the Technical University of Berlin in between. there was still a slight connection to that era.

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Ten buildings that became embroiled in legal battles

Deezen

Soon after it opened, a number of people sued the developers and operators of the slide for injuries, including one woman who claimed to have broken her ankle sliding down the attraction at speed. The DRA filed a class action lawsuit against the library and the City of New York for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Frank Gehry brought global attention to deconstructivism

Deezen

Opening in 1997, this gleaming composition of titanium-clad, ship-like forms – described by the New York Times as a "miracle" – transformed the economic fortunes of the previously unremarkable Basque port city, and catapulted Gehry and his idiosyncratic style to international fame. Top: Frank Gehry. Illustration is by Vesa S.

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