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Norm Architects references Japanese temples for Sjöparken retreat in Sweden

Deezen

"Rather than competing with the external landscape, it serves as a balanced foundation, offering warmth and coolness, softness and hardness, tactility and smoothness." Glass corridors link the buildings Sjöparken is complete with greenery and green roofs, which are designed to visually soften the development and help it blend in over time.

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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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Estudio Hidalgo

ArchiDiaries

Alvaro did his architecture at the University of Guadalajara in 2008. Abraham did his architecture at the University of Guadalajara 2008. He currently resides in Baja California Sur, where he accompanies his practice with developing research projects in architecture and academic teaching. (“Text as taken from the website”).

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

Architizer

In this four-part series, we ask each of Architizer’s founders to reflect on foundational philosophies and to share stories about the early days of the platform. Ben Prosky: Essentially it was 2008. Founding Architizer was really an important part of my professional development because it really diversified it.

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

Bustler

With Open Call Orthen, the BAI and the Stichting Solamen (foundation which develops and manages Orthen Cemetery) want to change that. However, the full potential of the green memorial park does not always receive the attention it deserves. More information about Open Call Orthen, prizes, delivery, terms and conditions, etc.

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Serpentine presents Alienarium 5 by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

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2058 at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2008. Approaching from the park, visitors will come across a statue in remembrance of the coming alien developed by the artist together with writer and philosopher, Paul B. Alienarium 5 is a speculative environment in which to imagine possible encounters with extra-terrestrials.

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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.