Archinect

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum has unveiled plans for a renovation of its Daniel Libeskind -designed Michael Lee-Chin Crystal expansion, which opened in 2008. A new water feature will be added to the heritage facade surrounding the building on Bloor Street and Queen’s Park, punctuated by a cantilevered bronze canopy.

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Deezen

APRIL 12, 2024

In its study , the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) at the University of Surrey analysed how different examples of blue infrastructure (water areas and features) and green infrastructure (planted elements) can mitigate urban heating. Wetlands and green walls were also highly efficient at urban cooling compared to grass parks.

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Archinect

JANUARY 24, 2024

Following last week’s look at an opening for a Studio Director at Doug Aitken Workshop , we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Project Manager at Fluidity Design Consultants. Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA by Fluidity Design Consultants.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When picturing a water treatment plant or a water resource recovery facility (WRRF), the typical mental image is that of an industrial complex designed primarily for the practical function of managing and treating water. Submit your work before February 23rd for your chance at the global spotlight. Shenzhen, China.

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Archinect

JANUARY 30, 2023

” Concept for Coopers' Park, Vancouver for 2040. Image credit: MVRDV The catalogue was originally produced as part of North Creek Collective’s entry to Vancouver’s Sea2City Design Challenge, a contest that invited teams to investigate the urban future of a body of water at the heart of Vancouver named False Creek.

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Archinect

APRIL 10, 2024

The park on the Moravian Square in Brno has become a new vibrant place, establishing its own poetics of peace and action, starkly contrasting the city's constant commotion and traffic. It is a gathering place in the heart of the park, featuring a fountain that creates a water mirror or a misty cloud.

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Archinect

AUGUST 17, 2023

Urban farms and communal spaces are among the ideas for repurposing car park floors in Melbourne’s skyscrapers in the future, when it is predicted that residents will rely more on driverless and shared electric cars.

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Archinect

JANUARY 29, 2024

Brooks + Scarpa has shared photos of its recently completed design for the Youth Sports Complex in Pompano Beach, Florida. The concept of the 10-acre project centers around The Field House, an enclosed 4,100-square-foot pavilion structure at the center of the park.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A rural city bets on water access and landscape amenities as the keys to economic revitalization. A new riverfront park, now under construction, is poised to change all that. A major design imperative was not just to provide views of the river but to allow users to engage with it. Photo courtesy City of Danville.

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Archinect

JUNE 6, 2023

The meaning of “Mountain & Sea” comes from its position, keeping away from the hustle and bustle of the city and appearing vividly on the mountain, as well as from its location at the north end of the Dianchi Lake system, with excellent landscape resources, and the city, water and mountains are all included in the sight.

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Archinect

JANUARY 11, 2023

In anticipation of fluctuating water levels , a selection of native trees and wetland plants capable of surviving the varying conditions have been plante. ” Image credit: Turenscape To create the landscape, the team recycled coal ash previously dumped on the site, mixing it with dirt from fish pond dykes to create numerous islets.

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Archinect

APRIL 9, 2024

The integration of biophilic elements, controlled daylight, institutional-grade materials, energy and water-conscious design, dynamic landscapes, and public art, results in a physical expression of sustainable and resilient design in the urban Sonoran Desert.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Danish studio Cobe has completed The Opera Park, a "much-needed green oasis" in Copenhagen 's inner harbour that features six gardens and a flower-shaped greenhouse. Described by Cobe as a "lush, green park island", the 21,500-square-metre landscape occupies a green lawn on a former industrial site adjacent to The Royal Danish Opera.

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Archinect

AUGUST 8, 2022

A few short weeks removed from the greenlighting of its proposed Ocean Avenue project in Santa Monica, Gehry Partners has revealed a new design for a Headwaters Pavilion to the LA River Greenway located within a city-owned plot in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Canoga Park. The total estimated cost of the design is $5.1

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Archinect

AUGUST 21, 2023

Bangkok-based landscape architecture firm Shma Company Limited has introduced an elegant, small-scale landscape intervention in front of a Neri&Hu -designed hotel called Le Meridien in Zhengzhou City, China. A water feature situated in front of the hotel’s lobby drop-off area serves as the main welcoming element.

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Archinect

AUGUST 15, 2023

A new three-acre sculpture park design for Louisville, Kentucky’s Speed Art Museum has been unveiled by Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture in a preview of the project, which is expected to host some 500,000 visitors a year after it opens in 2025.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The project is comprised of two main components – a new deep-water marina and a waterside paddle and pool club. The design of the project takes cues from both the active marina and maritime environs, as well as the tidal estuaries and salt marsh landscapes of the adjacent Absecon Bay.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The design of a new pedestrian and cycle bridge in a major park in Sydney by Australian firm Sam Crawford Architects (SCA) was inspired by the shape of ‘bara’ eels and their migration to the Pacific Ocean from the very pond it traverses.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Next in our Designing for Disaster series, we spotlight Pop Up, Danish studio Tredje Natur's bold proposal for cities to build floating car parks on top of flood-preventing reservoirs. During extreme rain, the basin would fill with water, pushing the car park up above ground level.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

By Stephen Zacks An old industrial site in 2020, before the construction of Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok. Gray infrastructure and channelized rivers of the past century are being increasingly daylit and replaced with naturalized environments that absorb water and restore wildlife habitats.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The project facing to the south - natural water system of Shili Port, which connects the millennium historic town Xitang to the west, and then connects the origin of the Yangtze River Delta - the Watertown Parlor to the east. Uphold the design concept of "floating leaf " to practice the "low carbon, energy saving, green and s.

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AUGUST 28, 2022

Downtown Riverfront Plaza rendering by Walker Macy (stripes and stones concept) Now that the new Downtown Riverfront Park is open, the City of Eugene (COE) is asking the community for its assistance in designing the central plaza, which will be the park’s next phase of development.

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designboom

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

water and flora emerge on both horizontal and vertical surfaces of the park by BORD. The post geometric pools & plant-covered walls define BORD’s aquaticum water park in hungary appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

MAY 30, 2023

BEHF Architects has created a new Retail Centre PADO Galleries next to the PADO shopping Park to complete a retail arena in Parndorf Together with its client Erlinger Immobilien, BEHF Architects has developed the PADO Galleries, a highly attractive retail centre built next to the PADO Shopping Park to complete the arena.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Global architecture firm BIG has designed a pair of Manhattan skyscrapers connected by a twisting skybridge as part of a four-tower development that includes a spiral-shaped museum at its centre. It consists of four residential and hotel towers with a park and museum at the centre. Freedom Plaza will be located on a 6.7-acre

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Deezen

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Manhattan's first "public beachfront" and a salt marsh feature at Gansevoort Peninsula on the Hudson River, which was designed by local landscape studio Field Operations to serve as a buffer against rising tides. Our administration is working to provide open space in every community and expand access to public parks in all five boroughs."

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The Architecture Designs

APRIL 25, 2024

Are you in need of top-notch roofing services in Overland Park, KS? In this comprehensive guide, we’ll delve into everything you need to know about roofing in Overland Park, KS, ensuring your home is protected and beautiful for years. Look no further! Ensuring your roof is well-maintained and durable is crucial.

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JUNE 12, 2022

The City of Eugene celebrated the grand opening of the new Downtown Riverfront Park this weekend. The City of Eugene and Eugene Water & Electric Board first discussed the potential of a new park as part of the greater Downtown Riverfront redevelopment in 2008; I have tracked its design progress ever since.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Architecture studio Taller Capital has created a linear park in Mexico City that incorporates a walkway and made with materials optimised for water retention and dust mitigation. Taller Capital has created a linear park in a Mexican boulevard The project saw the renovation of 2.1 The photography is by Rafael Gamo.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2023

Dutch studio Wurck has completed an underwater bicycle park next to Amsterdam 's central station, with glossy white interiors submerged nine metres beneath the surface of its famous canals. The design is a tribute to the water," explains Cancer. All forms are fluid. The photography is by Aiste Rakauskaite.

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Archinect

MARCH 11, 2024

Coffeebar is a contemporary space in the heart of Silicon Valley’s venture capital, Menlo Park, California. A live-edge walnut communal table—designed by NICOLEHOLLIS and accented by striking butterfly joints in bright blue—anchors the space.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Interlocking hexagonal pieces make up Flyt, a permeable paver system developed by Norwegian studio Snøhetta as an easy-to-use water management solution for urban areas around the world. We wanted the system to be easy to use and open up new opportunities to implement critical water management solutions in more ways."

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

The Duchy of Cornwall has submitted plans for a 2,500-home development in Faversham, UK , designed by Ben Pentreath, which will be the first major development led by Prince William. It responds to ancient footpaths and landscape patterns, to topography and water, and to the need to support and strengthen local food networks," he continued. "We

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

Spanish architecture practice Kauh has completed the renovation of La Hoya Park in the historical centre of Almería, restoring a series of stepped, dry stone terraces on the site of a 13th-century town. For the planting, protected species found on the site were maintained and accompanied by new fruit and mulberry trees.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The open-air theatre is located within La Fontaine Park, which encompasses 34 hectares in Montreal 's Le-Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood. The stage portion sits on a small island in a lake, and the seating area is located just across the water. The architects ended up conceiving a "theatrical destination integrated with nature".

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Dutch studio VenhoevenCS Architecture + Urbanism has completed IJboulevard, an underwater bicycle park for Amsterdam Central Station in the Netherlands. The facility provides underwater parking for 4,000 bicycles, as well as a pedestrian boulevard above ground with panoramic views over the River IJ.

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Deezen

AUGUST 31, 2023

US firms Studio Gang and SCAPE have created a public park alongside the Mississippi River in Memphis that features a mass-timber shade structure and an installation by artist Theaster Gates. Studio Gang and SCAPE redesigned a park on the Memphis waterfront. The name refers to Nichol's reported hobby of photographing sunsets.

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