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"Outstanding" landscape architect Lynn Kinnear dies aged 64

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Landscape architect Lynn Kinnear, founder of Kinnear Landscape Architects who collaborated on projects including the Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School , has died aged 64. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 but continued to run her practice until 2023. Kinnear designed the landscaping for Burntwood School.

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Five contemporary timber homes by Wittman Estes: Your Next Employer?

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Founded in 2012, and spanning architecture and landscape operations, the firm operates on “the idea that buildings and landscapes can be combined into one interconnected whole.” ” Over on Archinect Jobs , the firm is currently hiring a Drafter/Designer to join their Seattle office.

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UNESCO urges UK not to proceed with Stonehenge tunnels project

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The A303 redevelopment proposal had originally garnered the attention of preservation advocates beginning in 2017 and eventually yielded a favorable ruling from the UK High Court in 2021, the same year UNESCO first threatened to add the site to its list of World Heritage in Danger.

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Architectuur Maken designs sculptural staircase overlooking Dutch landscape

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Dutch studio Architectuur Maken has completed De Niewe Herdgang, a sculptural staircase rising 25 metres to create a watchtower over the landscape outside the city of Tilburg , the Netherlands. Landscape and people are inextricably linked. Architectuur Maken has created a sculptural staircase called De Niewe Herdgang.

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Al Hosn Masterplan And Landscape Abu Dhabi

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Al Hosn Masterplan And Landscape Abu Dhabi Buildings, Architect, CEBRA UAE Architecture Photos. Al Hosn Masterplan And Landscape Abu Dhabi, UAE. Al Hosn Masterplan And Landscape in Abu Dhabi. Today the site is transformed into a vivid public park, which enhances the two historic buildings as important landmarks in the city.

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Izat Arundell clads remote Outer Hebrides home with local stone

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Thick walls of local stone shelter Caochan na Creige, a home in Scotland 's Outer Hebrides by local practice Izat Arundell designed to "sit respectfully in the landscape". The site's remote nature informed the simple material choices, as well as making it more viable to construct the timber frame on-site rather than prefabricating it.

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Experience 12 interactive, site-specific installations at Sydney Contemporary

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As such, it affords an opportunity to experience innovative, site-specific, and interactive installations within the unique architecture of Carriageworks. During the day the sculpture absorbs and reflects the fleeting, ever-changing pageantry of its surroundings: the movements of people, sky, landscape, birds. 1/3 + 2 AP.