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7 Ways Landscape Architects Broke New Ground in 2022

Architizer

The relationship between built and organic landscapes can sometimes be a fraught one. Too often, urbanization is undertaken at the expense of the natural environment rather than in support of it. These exceptional winning landscape projects from the 10 th Annual A+Awards achieve precisely that. Merging Old and New Landscapes.

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Dubai Mangroves by URB

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This initiative aims to integrate ecological preservation with urban development, enhancing Dubai’s coastline with a vision of planting more than 100 million mangrove trees over 72 kilometers. The project is spearheaded by URB, the same masterminds of the Dubai Reefs Project and The Loop in Dubai.

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Adaptive Reuse Revolution: 7 Commercial Projects Potently Preserving the Past

Architizer

Precise incisions have unfurled the monolithic concrete volume, drawing in daylight, air and views of the picturesque surrounding landscape. Flexibility is at the core of the remarkable project – multipurpose work zones and elevated platforms feature furniture on castor wheels for a fluid and easily adaptable floor plan.

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Ten architecture projects by students at the University of Toronto

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It is located within the Free Trade Zone, an urban periphery littered with warehouses and corporate campuses – in a never-ending pursuit for quantity and efficiency. By slowing down in urgent times, this project arrives at waste landscapes through a grammar of thinking otherwise and noticing plastics as landscape agents."

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Hyde Park, Hoofddorp Station District, Amsterdam

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This will create an important urban development for the area of Beukenhorst-West, located between the train station and centre of Hoofddorp which has remained until recently, a desolate office park with vacant spaces. Cycling, walking and socialising are a key feature of the ground areas, a car-free zone.

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The Chesapeake Bay - A Complex Eco-System Explained

Community Architect

Increasing floods graph (NOAA) Add culture and urban development. In order to restore the productivity of both the land and water, it is necessary to increase the wetness of the land by redesigning its capacity for denitrification. A decisive battle in the Revolutionary War was fought here.

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Nine architecture, preservation and development projects by students at Tulane University

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"We have sought to maintain our stability-seeking occupation patterns by constraining the coastal landscape through structural interventions, creating a path dependency on hard infrastructure that is unsustainable in the long term. Student: Giuliana Vaccarino Gearty Course: ARCH 6051 – Research Studio 'Town.